2024 was a massive year for pop music, between new albums from Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, to Chappell Roan’s massive rise to stardom.
However, 2024 was a particularly busy and big year for another genre: metal. Throughout the year, fans saw a lot of new tours and projects from older bands such as Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, and big years for current genre heavyweights Bring me the Horizon, Ghost and Gojira.
Some bands announced new albums – like Linkin Park, with their brand new album, From Zero. This is the band’s first album in over 7 years, as the band was on hiatus due to the passing of longtime singer Chester Bennington.
The band brought in former Dead Sara lead singer Emily Armstrong to replace Bennington, which was met with some controversy due to her Scientology past. Nonetheless, the album opened to number 2 on the Billboard Top 200, and reached number 1 in the U.K.
The band announced a world tour following the album’s release, which is set to begin in Mexico City, Mexico on January 31, 2025.
Bring me the Horizon released their brand new album, POST HUMAN: NeX GEn – which features collabs with artists such as, Lil Uzi Vert, AURORA, and Underoath.
Megan Thee Stallion collaborated with the band Spiritbox on her new song “TYG.” She had previously done a different collaboration with Spiritbox to create a rock/metal twist to her hit song, “Cobra,” that her fans and listeners have raved about!
The band Ghost released their movie, “RITE HERE RITE NOW,” worldwide over the span of June 20-24. The movie contains live performances from all of their past five albums, their hit song “Mary on a Cross” and more.
People online raved about this movie. Major fans are excited that it was on the big screen, and others just appreciate the art of the songs and plots of the movie.
According to the movie’s official website, the synopsis is as follows: “‘RITE HERE RITE NOW’ is, however, so much more than a concert movie. GHOST’s debut feature film combines live performance from the two-night finale of the band’s RE-IMPERATOUR U.S.A. 2023 with a narrative story that picks up plot threads from the band’s long-running webisode series.”
Ghost will also be going on a world tour in 2025, with their first show being in Manchester, U.K., on April 15.
French metal band Gojira made history by being the first metal band to perform at the Olympics; during which they had an iconic moment when they showed a headless Marie Antoinette in the opening shot, as they performed in front of the prison she was held in.
The performance was a massive hit and was shared across countless social media apps. Due to high demand, the band released a recording of the performance titled “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira!).”
The band Limp Bizkit held their North American Tour. They released their newest album in 2021, and they have been on and off of tours and doing festivals for the past few years now. The band has been given new life in recent years thanks in large part to younger audiences.
However, it is frontman Fred Durst who has had a bit of career renaissance, as he had major roles in two movies in 2024: award-nominated “I Saw the TV Glow” and the comedy “Y2K,” where he played a fictionalized version of himself.
The world of the metal genre has been heavily active the last year and even into the month of January already.
The subgenres of metal have also been quite active: tons of new music has been released from big artists as talked about above, to smaller up-and-coming artists, and even underground artists.
The love for the art of metal music and the subgenres of metal are strong, and have been for the last few years.
