David Castillo (Saint Vitus, Confines) lists his favorite albums of 2024

Saint Vitus Bar closed this year, but booker and co-owner Dave Castillo has kept busy in many ways including keeping Saint Vitus alive through promotion of shows at other venues, and by making and performing music with his industrial solo project Confines. To wrap up the year, he’s made us a list of his 40 favorite albums of ’24. He writes:

2024 was one of the most tumultuous years I’ve had in a long time, and that’s saying something. These 40 records got me through the enormous peaks and valleys this past year had to offer. Thank you to these artists for helping me get through the good, bad and ugly. 

Chat Pile – Cool World
Pallbearer – Mind Burns Alive
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Oranssi Pazazu – Muuntautuja
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament 
Subdued – Abbatoir
Justice – Hyperdrama
Whispers – Yo-Ma-Lok
Uniform – American Standard
Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed to
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Semantix – Caustic Motion
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Candy – Flipping + It’s Inside You
Departure Chandelier – Satan Soldier of Fortune 
Julie – My anti-aircraft friend
Kontravoid – Detachment
Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Speed – Real Life Love 
Denzel Curry – King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2
Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss
Concrete Winds – Concrete Winds
Spectral Voice – Sparagamos
Glimmer – So Numb, Buried, Homesick
Life’s Question – Life’s Question
Superheaven – Long Gone, Numb to What is Real
Curses – Another Heaven 
Loosey – Spring Promo 24
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
The Jesus Lizard – RACK
Funeral Leech – The Illusion Of Time 
Couch Slut – You Could do it Tonight
Counterparts – Heaven Let Them Die
Whores. – War.
Innuendo – Peace and Love
Kendrick Lamar – GNX 
High Vis – Guided Tour
Nails – Every Bridge Burning
Armor – Afraid of What’s to Come
Normal Bias – Kingdom Come

Listen to Confines at Bandcamp. Check out all the other End of Year lists on BrooklynVegan, HERE.