There are usually one or two categories in our Metal Storm Awards each year where the competition to just even get nominated is intense. For me, I think of post-metal and melodeath in 2021, prog in 2020, and black metal in 2019. Frankly, this also applies to extreme progressive metal pretty much every year, but this one in particular, I feel like I’ve already reviewed more nomination-worthy albums than there are spaces to fill. Nevertheless, my (almost certainly) final reviews of the year will be dedicated to highlighting a few late gems worthy of consideration. One of them is from a band called Anomaly, but, as already shown, releasing a quality prog-death metal album this year is not an anomaly.
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