A couple of years ago I was still at the point where the IPA Gods had not bestowed the appreciation of that type of beer upon me. Then. One fateful night in Denver, CO I had a Voodoo Ranger and it changed my opinion of IPAs.

It seems that 2021 is the year that I started to gain an appreciation for Avant-garde Black.

1.Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment

2.Ustalost - Before The Glinting Spell Unvests

3.Krallice - Demonic Wealth

4.The Temple (NZL) - The Temple

5.Worm - Foreverglade

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My List of the releases made during 2021. Score based on the excel sheet i've made https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hk_3gkpCfeKtdZNus_z3sxg-U8XJ_MqklfC8tbealaE/edit?usp=sharing

1.Decline Of The I - Johannes

2.Vokonis - Odyssey

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

4.Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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Albums i've enjoyed in 2021

1.Turnstile - Glow On

2.Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

3.Herzel - Le Dernier Rempart

4.The Flight Of Sleipnir - Eventide

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb

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Good morrow
This is Prnzo
this list is probably for...
idk, the more adventurous...
jack-of-all-trades listener
lots of apples/oranges here
hopefully this top list helps
at least one MS'er
and if not...
there's always next yr
...unless there's not

update: this list still reflected just releases from earlier in the year - I keep updating my list offline... but I'm never happy with some of the configuration/arrangement (due mostly to indecision or losing track of even a very good release here n there)

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

2.Dordeduh - Har

3.Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI)

4.The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls

5.Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

1.Archspire - Bleed The Future

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires

3.Bloodred Hourglass - Your Highness

4.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

5.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

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After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who TF knows when we might return to a semblance of normality. Until then, I'll be trying to make sure that nothing noteworthy passes my radar.

1.Vulgaris - Asundre

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Heliocentric - Ishmael

4.Decline Of The I - Johannes

5.Dordeduh - Har

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1.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

2.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

3.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

4.Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers

5.Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile

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Manuel Castillo (Amusia) is a Mexican youtuber/reviewer specialized in heavy metal, who makes reviews without pression from the labels or distros. His passion and knowledge are the best tools he has and is followed by almost 70,000 people from the Spanish-speaking community. His partner, Carlos 'Black Bujo' Telles, also make reviews but of underground bands.

1.Asphyx - Necroceros

2.Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos

3.Therion - Leviathan

4.Labyrinth - Welcome To The Absurd Circus

5.Accept - Too Mean To Die

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This time around I'm only including albums rating 78.2% or higher to ensure only quality albums by my standards. This year is the first time I'm including a small description for each album rated around 83.0% or higher. Some below get an exemption because well, I had something to say about it. It's also the first time I'm including release date, record company, type (full-length, if blank), and volume. My volume by default is at 46 so + and - indicate how low or high it deviates from that.

1.Sol Kia - Zos Ethos

2.Victory Over The Sun - Nowherer

3.Peste Noire - Le Retour Des Pastoureaux

4.Chaos Echœs - Ecstasy With The Nonexistents

5.Dipygus - Bushmeat

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Keeping track of 2021's albums

1.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle

2.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

3.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

4.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

5.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮ - Disappointing

1.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

2.In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil

3.Dordeduh - Har

4.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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1.Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Mære

3.Monolord - Your Time To Shine

4.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

5.Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn

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1.Worm - Foreverglade

2.Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment

3.Gosudar - Morbid Despotic Ritual

4.Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking

5.Ustalost - Before The Glinting Spell Unvests

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1.Asphyx - Necroceros

2.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

3.Fulci - Exhumed Information

4.Baest - Necro Sapiens

5.Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell

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2021 Playlist

1.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

2.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

3.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

4.Wheel - Resident Human

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

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