The Chisel members tell us about their favorite albums of 2024
UK street punks The Chisel released one of this year’s most fun records with What A Fucking Nightmare (as Rise Against co-founder Joe Principe agrees), and they were supposed to bring their show over to the States in the fall but had to cancel. Here’s hoping we get to yell along to “Bloodsucker” and “Fuck ‘Em” and The Chisel’s other addictive anthems in the new year.
Meanwhile, vocalist Cal Graham and guitarist Luke Younger have made us a list of their favorite albums of 2024, and it’s got a lot of cool stuff, like avant-garde punk Meryl Streek‘s new album Songs for the Deceased (which features Cal on the song “Dogs” and also features a track with A Place To Bury Strangers), pub-rocker Chubby and the Gang (aka Charlie Manning Walker, who’s also in The Chisel), fellow UK punks High Vis, Vancouver post-punks Schedule 1, Chicago Oi! punks Lost Legion, LA hardcore band Human Garbage, Toronto black metallers Nächtlich, Berlin electronic trio Eros (aka Einstürzende Neubauten producer Boris Wilsdorf, Karl O’Connor aka Regis, and My Disco’s Liam Andrews), experimental Philly artist Morgan Garrett, and the lost ’90s album by the late Suicide member Alan Vega. See what Luke and Cal had to say about each one below.
Earlier this year, Cal made us a list of his 10 favorite British punk & Oi! records of all time.
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The Chisel’s Favorite Albums of 2024
Luke’s picks:
Nächtlich – Exaltation Of Evil
For my money the best black metal band operating today and this is their best record so far. Incorporating more synths and ambient passages into their tunes but still keeping it raw and evil. Classic BM.
Alan Vega – Insurrection
Lost Alan Vega album from the ’90s finally sees the light of day. Some of his most extreme, brutal and best material which hits the same levels of intensity as his collaborations with Pan Sonic from around the same period.
High Vis – Guided Tour
Boys come good yet again on their best album yet. Mixing the best bits of the broad ’90s alt-rock spectrum and delivering them in a way that only High Vis can make work. You’ve likely heard this and love it.
Eros – Your Truth Is A Lie
Atmospheric and intense album of real industrial music, immaculately produced by three masters of their craft.
Morgan Garrett – Purity
The most confusing and unclassifiable thing I’ve heard in 2024. You could say Purity is an album of dark country music performed through a filter of industrial music and – dare I say it – nu-metal.
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Cal’s picks:
Meryl Streek – Songs for the Deceased
My favourite record released this year (and its not just cos im on it). Politically charged music that I feel could become accessible to the masses, with a message like this what is not to love about that.
Chubby and the Gang – And Then There Was…
A huge achievement for Charlie knocking this record out, the man could sneeze and it would become a 24 song double LP full of hits
Human Garbage – Valley’s Most Hated
An absolute rager of an LP, adds 10% to your lifts in the gym, musical creatine.
Schedule 1 – Crucible
Reminds me of so many of my favourite bands, a decent mix of Chameleons / early Cure.
Lost Legion – Behind the Concrete Veil
Great lads and probably the best Oi LP that came out this year, my most listened to anyway.
