5 most anticipated albums of 2024

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A brand new 12 months means a complete new slate of music to sit up for. From veterans to rising acts, 2024 already feels rife with potentialities, contemporary avenues, and wishful pondering. Bring Me the Horizon are readying a set of pop-metal songs that can shore up their legacy, whereas Mannequin Pussy, iDKHOW, and Laura Jane Grace have already delivered earworms that make us excited to delve into their forthcoming albums. Plus, there’s far more but to be introduced, and shock releases are inevitable.

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Naturally, we requested our readers to vote on their most anticipated albums of 2024, and their solutions didn’t disappoint. Find the highest fan picks ranked beneath.

5. Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs

It’s been an extended six years since Alkaline Trio unleashed their final file, Is This Thing Cursed? Between stints in blink-182, touring, and forming a brand new supergroup, Matt Skiba has remained busy, however he all the time returns to the band that launched his profession to nice heights. Their new album, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, is called after “exceptionally busy nights” in hospitals, produced by Cameron Webb, and made at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606. It’s certain to be a bloody good time.

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4. Sum 41 – Heaven :x: Hell

Ever since Sum 41 introduced their cut up and last album, the temper has felt extra reflective. Last month, the pop-punk crew formally revealed its title, Heaven :x: Hell, which is a double album that vocalist Deryck Whibley describes as “early Sum 41 pop punk” on Heaven and “newer, heavier Sum 41” on Hell. We’ve already heard the sugary “Landmines” and the riffier “Rise Up,” and primarily based on these two releases alone, it looks as if a becoming spectrum for one final emotional journey.

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3. Bring Me the Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn

Bring Me the Horizon’s new file, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn, has been on the way in which for some time. It was pushed again from its preliminary September launch, and after asserting the departure of longtime member Jordan Fish in December, the band doubtless have some particulars to type out forward of their U.Okay. tour with Bad Omens. Nonetheless, the follow-up to 2020’s POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR is bound to stun with a stability of poppy hooks and riffy carnage, as heard on singles like “DArkSide,” “AmEN!,” and “LosT.”

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2. MCR5

When My Chemical Romance surprise-released “The Foundations of Decay,” their first correct single in eight years, the neighborhood started speculating that there’s extra to come back. Much has been mythologized about MCR5 — fan theories about its existence may hold you up for days. But after wrapping an enormous tour the place the band served viral seems nightly by Emmy-winning designer Marina Toybina, it seems like MCR are already within the midst of a complete new period, whether or not or not that features studio music.

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1. Green Day – Saviors

With their When We Were Young efficiency behind them and a world tour forward, Saviors nabbing the highest spot isn’t any shock. Out Jan. 19, the file is hotly anticipated, and Green Day have been teasing its launch with the singles “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” “Dilemma,” and “Look M, No Brains!” Marking their first file with producer Rob Cavallo in over 10 years, Saviors is designed to honor their decades-long profession. “This is still our escape, after all these years,” Mike Dirnt informed us throughout their cowl story interview final 12 months. “It’s an escape for the good and the bad. Sometimes it’s the greatest thing to be in the room.”