Best of 2024 - Part 1 - BEE'S PICKS
Bee’s Best of 2024
Another year with an almost overwhelming output of great punk and hardcore. Every year when I have to rack my brain for what actually came out this year and start making running lists I almost get whiplash with how quickly the time passed. Here’s my top 10 for tapes, 7”s and… 12 for 12”s because I’m not bound to the confines of a top ten. They’re by no means exhaustive, and in no particular order. Death to Imperialism.
Tapes
MUTATED VOID - Listen to the Struggle (Unlawful Assembly)
EVIL SPIRIT - Onerous Dispelled (RoachLeg)
YOUTH IN ASIA - Nuclear Waste Abomination (Unlawful Assembly)
TOTAL CON - Kill Someone you Hate (Unlawful Assembly/Brainrotter)
MISSILE STRATEGY - S/T (Scorched Noise)
NECRON 9 - Flower Children (Unlawful Assembly)
eX-TRADITION - The Holy Pervert (Self-released)
SKITTER - Man Bites Dog (Brainrotter)
VERIFY - Hardcore Demo (Self-released)
THE NOT - LP I (Self-released)
7”s
HELLSCAPE - S/T (Donor/Advanced Perspective)
BRAIN TOURNIQUET/DELIRIANT NERVE - Split (Iron Lung)
DESINTEGRACIÓN VIOLENTA - La Bestia (RoachLeg/Unlawful Assembly)
ASSISTERT SJØLMORD - S/T (Static Shock)
PAPRIKA - S/T (Iron Lung)
VIDRO - Upp Till Dans (Beach Impediment)
MISANTHROPIC MINDS/HÄPEÄ - Split (Sewercide)
CICADA - Wicked Dream (Unlawful Assembly)
SØRDÏD - Reality’s a War (RoachLeg Records)
HOMEMADE SPEED - Faster is Better (Not For the Weak)
12”s
KRIEGSHÖG - Love and Revenge (LVEUM)
PUBLIC ACID - Deadly Struggle (Beach Impediment)
ALAMBRADA - Ríos de Sangre (Unlawful Assembly)
SUBDUED - Abattoir (LVEUM)
ARMOR - Afraid of What’s to Come (11PM)
INVERTEBRATES - Sick to Survive (Beach Impediment)
MIRAGE - Legato Alla Rovina (RoachLeg)
ALVILDA - C’est Déjà L’heure (Static Shock)
THE DARK - Sinking into Madness (Toxic State)
INNUENDO - Peach & Love (Unlawful Assembly)
SIHIR - Ulat Alan Patuk (LVEUM)
LIFELESS DARK - Forces of Nature’s Transformation (Side Two)
Honourable mention to RECALL - Demo, YANKEE BASTARD - Fucking USA, NO IDOLS - Demo, FRIED REALITLY - Dissolved Mind, DISCIPLINARY ACTION - RNC demo, ZORN - Endless Funera, READY ARMED SYSTEM / ACAUSTIX - Military Grade Vol. 1 (RoachLeg), and probably a bunch that I’ll remember as soon as this list is published.
