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2021 Album Ranking

1.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
4.Grima - Rotten Garden
5.Gojira - Fortitude

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Created by Anghellic67 on 01.01.2021



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2021: Jan-Jun

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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Created by musclassia on 24.01.2021



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Best Of 2021

Limited only to the albums I rate higher than 7.
Suggestions are extremely welcomed.

1.Theologian - Nonextant
2.She Spread Sorrow - Hunters
3.Choir - Songs For A Tarnished World
4.Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
5.Fragment King - Retreat

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Created by mz on 31.12.2021



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2020+1 or: how I learned to stop worrying and love avant-garde black

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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Created by Chobo_jokeR on 29.05.2021



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My Top Metal Albums Of 2021

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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Created by quieted_darkness on 23.01.2021



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2021

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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Created by Sakuraba on 10.01.2021



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Best Of 2021!

Another year, another list. Huh time flies. First 10 in order I think was best of the best. Last 10 worst of the worst. Rest is in a order as I think they fits (based on todays perspective) , maybe december albums are higher as januari ones and also some middle albums might be 2-3 places higher, lover.
PS If there are duplications, let me know.

1.Thyrathen - ThanatOpsis
2.Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void
3.Cult Of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion
4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
5.Icon Of Sin - Icon Of Sin

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Created by Bad English on 30.01.2022



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2021

My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2021.

1.Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
2.Worm - Foreverglade
3.Noltem - Illusions In The Wake
4.Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal
5.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

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Created by Jacob Butcher on 07.01.2022



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Favourite Albums of 2021

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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Created by IllusiveCamel🐪 on 01.01.2021



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The Black Lodge 2021 List

This year we have one best album plus a top 30 list in alphabetical order. We people of the Black Lodge are f***ing evil, but we're also quite sick, that's why our album of the year maybe is not metal anymore, but it's still the sickest album of the year. The Top 30 is full of that malicious, tortured music that made us even more malignant this year.

1.Emptiness - Vide
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Amenra - De Doorn
4.Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment
5.Barús - Fanges

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Created by Evil Cooper on 05.03.2022



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2021: Stuff I Heard

So earlier in 2021, I actually finished a nine year old list, and I thought starting this in July and backfilling with previous listens would be a good idea. Turns out not jotting down some thoughts about albums as you listen to them the first time is mistake, so almost every album on here has been heard at least twice - often more.

I'm going to leave it in release date order for now - maybe I'll put them in rating order, but that seems like a lot of work.

And even looking at my own list, I'm convinced there are albums I've heard that aren't on here, so that's great!

Anyway, enjoy reading and hopefully this might point you in the direction of something from 2021 you haven't bothered with yet.

Cheers!

1.Horndal - Lake Drinker
2.Unto Others - Strength
3.Obscura - A Valediction
4.Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality
5.Asphyx - Necroceros

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Created by LordFezzington on 08.07.2021



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2021 of the Pangolin

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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Created by Space Pangolin on 09.04.2021



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2021

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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Created by Tornado Of Souls on 07.03.2021



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My Top Of 2021

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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Created by Archie 666 on 24.01.2021



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Top 2021

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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Created by KaninStryparn on 04.01.2021