Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Going through highlights of the first half of the decade. That is, bands and albums that have stood out to me from 2020 - 2024. This is just to reminisce on the last 5 years, and talk about some bands and albums that I feel have left a lasting impression.

For reference, the bands I discussed in the video are:

Skeletal Remains
Ripped to Shreds
Exhumed
Molder
Ulcerate
Oxygen Destroyer
Evil Invaders
Bütcher
Hellripper
Vulture
Eternal Champion
Cirith Ungol
Riot City
Triumpher
Blazon Rite
Blood Star
Century
Helms Deep
Traveler
Morgul Blade
Blind Guardian
Helloween
Eternity's End
Twilight Force
Thornbridge
Frozen Crown
Sacred Outcry
Hooded Menace
Saturnus
Isole
Cross Vault
Crypt Sermon
The Flight of Sleipnir
Winterfylleth
Havukruunu
Stormkeep
Horn
Mare Cognitum
Saor
Véhémence
Hanternoz
Cân Bardd
Ungfell
Ancient Mastery
Stormruler
Liminal Shroud
Afsky
Moonlight Sorcery
Valdrin
Wayfarer
Akhlys
Djevel
Iotunn
Tomb Mold
Blood Incantation
Opeth
Kalmah
Brymir
Aephanemer
Ereb Altor
Seven Spires