On New Year’s Eve 2024, we tragically lost Joshua Nassaru Ward of Voraath, along with his fiancee’ and two other friends, when struck by a drunk driver. We’ve been friends with Joshua for many years… He was an amazing Father, friend, drummer, musician, visual artist, composer, and human being. Our love and light go out to all suffering from this senseless tragedy. Hug your loved ones, and don’t EVER drink and drive…
Rest in Power, dear friend… We love and miss you.
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Sick Drummer Magazine’s Favorite Drumming Albums of 2024! Our team has gone back and forth and has decided on these releases. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least or least to most favorite. Just a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first name… There is no best album or drummer; it is just what our team enjoyed collectively.
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When compiling our lists, our team considers creativity, groove, originality, musicality, finesse, speed, technicality, and a few other factors. We apologize in advance to those we may not have heard… or overlooked. It’s been another crazy year!
Ian Macdonald, Anton Hefele, Jeff Grindstopher, Jeanne Thomas, and Tomasz Pilasiewicz of Gorgasm reviewed and selected these albums.
Let’s all show our appreciation for the outstanding performances of these drummers. We are honored and excited to have these records to listen to and learn from. Please share the links to your favorites, and if you can, purchase some records and/or merchandise from these artists. Every little bit helps.
This is the 6th consecutive year Adam Jarvis and Lee Fisher have made this list. If you don’t know, now you know. That’s pretty insane. This year also features Marco Pitruzzella on two different releases and Robin Stone on four! The releases from Adam Jarvis and KC Howard are 2025 releases, but we wanted to help promote them early… Go and grab them when available!
Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for creating amazing works we can enjoy, learn from, and share!
Sick Drummer Magazine – Favorite Drumming Albums of 2024
Adam Jarvis | Scour | Gold (February 2025 Release)
Adde Mitroulis | Birdflesh | Faster Than a Priest Vomit
Alan Cassidy | The Black Dahlia Murder | Servitude
Baard Kolstad | Leprous | Melodies of Atonement
Brennan Shackelford | Brodequin | Harbinger of Woe
Brian Do | Ripped To Shreds | Sanshi
Bryce Butler | Shadow of Intent | Flying The Black Flag- Single
Carlos Cruz | Nails | Every Bridge Burning
Charlie Koryn | Negative Prayer | Self // Wound
Chason Westmoreland | Shrine of Skulls | Megalith of Madness
Clayton Holyoak | Better Lovers | Highly Irresponsible
Danny Walker | Thornlord |- Self-Titled ‘EP’
Dave Bland | Full of Hell | Coagulated Bliss
David Haley | Abramelin | Sins of the Father
Dobber Beverly | Oceans of Slumber | Where Gods Fear to Speak
Eugene Ryabchenko | Fleshgod Apocalypse | Opera
Flo Mounier | Vltimas | Epic
Frost | 1349 | The Wolf and the King
Gabriel “V-Kazar” Valcázar | Wormed | Omegon
Garon Howe – I Declare War – Downcast, Vol. 2
George Kollias – Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All
Giacomo Torti – Hour of Penance – Devotion
Gus Rios | Gruesome | Frailty ‘Single’
Hannes Grossmann | Echoes of Eternity ‘EP’
Incubus | Inquisition | Veneration of Medieval Mysticism and Cosmological Violence
Isaac Faulk | Blood Incantation | Absolute Elsewhere
Jacob Durett | Molotov Solution | Trilogy
Jamie Saint Merat | Ulcerate | Cutting the Throat of God
Jason Bittner | Category 7 | Self-Titled
Joe Pelletier | Peeling Flesh | The G Code
Jono Garrett | Shock Withdrawal | The Dismal Advance
Joshua Nassaru Ward (RIP) | Voraath | Vol 1: The Hymn of the Hunters
Kai Hahto | Wintersun | Time II
KC Howard | Retromorphosis | Psalmus Mortis (February 2025 Release)
Ken Bedene | Aborted | Vault of Horrors
Kerim “Krimh” Lechner | Daath | The Deceivers
Kevin Paradis | Benighted | Ekbom
Lee Fisher | Unikneim | C
Lille Gruber | Defeated Sanity | Chronicles of Lunacy
Matt Arrebollo | Gatecreeper | Dark Superstition
Matt Kilner | Vitriol | Suffer and Become
Marco Pitruzzella | Six Feet Under | Killing For Revenge
Marco Pitruzzella | Xemaulc’tha | Sanguis Autem Effusus
Matt Browning | Undeath | More Insane
Matt Korajczyk | Immortal Bird | Sin Querencia
Maxime Hänsenberger | Exorbitant Prices Must Diminish | For a Limited Time
Mike Heller | Malignancy | …Discontinued
Navene Koperweis | Entheos | An End to Everything ‘EP’
Nick Yacyshyn | Sumac | The Healer
Pete Webber | Havok | New Eyes ‘EP’
Robin Stone | Ashen Horde | Decayed ‘EP’
Robin Stone | Evilyn | Mondestrunken
Robin Stone | Oppose the Sun | Return to Dusk ‘EP’
Robin Stone | Sarcophagum | The Grand Arc of Madness
Sami Mantyla | Assemble the Chariots | Unyielding Night
Steve Asheim | Deicide | Banished by Sin
TJ Chilton | Summoning the Lich | Under the Reviled Throne
Waltteri Vayrynen | Opeth | The Last Will and Testament
Will Dorsey | Body Count | Merciless
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