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Best Of 2021 Death Metal


Another year, another list. My favorite DM from 2021, listed alphabetically by band name with subgenres. Some notable omissions include: Altarage, Asphyx, At The Gates, Be'lakor, Deviant Process, Massacre, Omnium Gatherum, Slaughter To Prevail, Swampbeast, The Beast Of Nod, The Monolith Deathcult and Vulvodynia. I've enjoyed those bands' new releases, just don't find them worthy of the company down below. Hopefully you will find a record you haven't heard of here. Feel free to recommend stuff in the comments. Enjoy!

Created by: Jaro | 11.01.2022



1. 200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel
Modern Death
2. 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
Symphonic Blackened Death
3. Abiotic - Ikigai
Progressive Deathcore/Technical Death
4. Aborted - ManiaCult
Modern Death
5. Abscession - Rot Of Ages
Swedeath
6. Aenigmatum - Deconsecrate
Progressive/Blackened Death
7. Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
Symphonic Melodic Death Metal
8. Æpoch - Hiraeth
Progressive Death
9. Alluvial - Sarcoma
Technical Death/Groove
10. Alustrium - A Monument To Silence
Progressive Technical Death
11. Archspire - Bleed The Future
FAST Technical Death
12. Atræ Bilis - Apexapien
Technical Death
13. Baest - Necro Sapiens
Modern Death
14. Blood Red Throne - Imperial Congregation
Modern Death
15. Burial (ITA) - Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium At The Center Of Cosmos
OSDM + Death/Doom
16. Burial In The Sky - The Consumed Self
Progressive Technical Death
17. Cambion - Conflagrate The Celestial Refugium
Blackened Death
18. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
It's Fucking CC
19. Carcass - Torn Arteries
It's Fucking Carcass
20. Cerebral Rot - Excretion Of Mortality
OSDM
21. Cognizance - Upheaval
Technical Death
22. Crescent - Carving The Fires Of Akhet
Nile-esque Blackened Death
23. Demon King - The Final Tyranny
Blackened Technical Death
24. Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death
Blackened Death
25. Diskord - Degenerations
Avant-garde OSDM
26. Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme Of Things
Technical Death
27. Empyreal Vault - Judgement
Technical Deathcore
28. Enshine - Transcending Fire
Death/Doom
29. Ex Deo - The Thirteen Years Of Nero
Symphonic Death
30. Exhumed - Worming
OSDM/Grindcore
31. Eximperitus - Šahrartu
Technical Death
32. Eye Of Purgatory - The Lighthouse
Swedeath
33. Fallensun - The Wake Of The Fall
Melodic Death
34. First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
Progressive Technical Death
35. Fractal Generator - Macrocosmos
Technical Death
36. Fractal Universe - The Impassable Horizon
Progressive Technical Death
37. Genocide Pact - Genocide Pact
Chunky Modern Death
38. Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
Finnish OSDM
39. Hannes Grossmann - To Where The Light Retreats
Progressive Technical Death
40. Hate - Rugia
Blackened Death
41. Hideous Divinity - LV-426
Brutal Technical Death
42. Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
Death/Doom/Heavy
43. Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity
OSDM
44. In Asymmetry - Ashes Of Dead Worlds
Brutal Technical Death
45. In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
Progressive Melodic Death
46. Inferi - Vile Genesis
Technical Death
47. Intonate - Severed Within
Progressive Technical Death
48. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
Epic Progressive Melodic Death
49. Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
Blackened Death
50. Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness
Melodic Technical Deathcore
51. Lvcifyre - The Broken Seal
Black/Death
52. Massen - Contraesthetic
Avant-garde Symphonic Black/Death
53. Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upøn
Brutal Deathcore
54. Mire - A New Found Rain
Progressive Groove/Melodic Death
55. Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment
Cavernous OSDM
56. Night Crowned - Hädanfärd
Melodic Black/Death
57. Noctambulist - The Barren Form
Dissonant Black/Death
58. Obscura - A Valediction
Technical Melodic Death
59. Ofermod - Mysterium Iniquitatis
Black/Death
60. Ominous Ruin - Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Brutal Technical Death
61. Ophidian I - Desolate
Technical Death
62. Organic - Where Graves Abound
Swedeath... from Italy
63. Our Place Of Worship Is Silence - Disavowed, And Left Hopeless
Death/Black
64. Pestilence - Exitivm
Progressive OSDM
65. Phrenelith - Chimaera
Weird OSDM
66. Portal - Avow
Experimental Death/Black
67. Putrevore - Miasmal Monstrosity
Brutal/OSDM
68. Pyrexia - Gravitas Maximus
Brutal Death/Slam
69. Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia
Atmospheric Blackened Death
70. Redemptor - Agonia
Technical Death
71. Replicant - Malignant Reality
Dissonant Death
72. Revulsion - Revulsion
Finnish OSDM
73. Rivers Of Nihil - The Work
Progressive Technical Death
74. Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole
Disgusting OSDM
75. Sepiroth - Condemned To Suffer
Chunky Modern Death
76. Siderean - Lost On Void's Horizon
Progressive OSDM
77. Sigil - Nether
Black/Death/Sludge
78. Son Of Sam - And The Monster Awoke...
Heavy/Melodic Death
79. Stortregn - Impermanence
Blackened Technical Death
80. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
Black/Death
81. Sulphurous - The Black Mouth Of Sepulchre
Cavernous Death
82. Summoning The Lich - United In Chaos
Melodic Death/Deathcore
83. Sunless - Ylem
Dissonant Technical Death
84. Svn.Seeker - Means To An End
Melodic Death
85. Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
Death/Doom
86. Teeth - Finite
Death/Doom
87. The Absence - Coffinized
Melodic Death
88. The Breathing Process - Labyrinthian
Symphonic Deathcore
89. The Crown - Royal Destroyer
Melodic Death/Thrash
90. Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
Melodic Death/Progressive Metalcore
91. Ulcer - Dead Souls Cathedral
OSDM
92. Unfathomable Ruination - Decennium Ruinae
Brutal Technical Death
93. Unflesh - Inhumation
Blackened Technical Death
94. Universally Estranged - Reared Up In Spectral Predation
Spacey OSDM
95. Unleashed - No Sign Of Life
It's Fucking Unleashed
96. Utter Scorn - Paroxysmal Endemia
Brutal Death
97. Veilburner - Lurkers In The Capsule Of Skull
Avant-garde Black/Death
98. Vertebra Atlantis - Lustral Purge In Cerulean Bliss
Experimental Black/Death
99. Voices - Breaking The Trauma Bond
Progressive Black/Death
100. Vulvodynia - Praenuntius Infiniti
Brutal Death
101. Whitechapel - Kin
Melodic Deathcore
102. Withered - Verloren
Black/Death
103. Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors
Black/Death
104. Wombbath - Agma
Swedeath (that's reaaaaally long for some reason)
105. Xenosis - Paralleled Existence
Technical Death
106. Zornheym - The Zornheim Sleep Experiment
Symphonic Black/Death



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Comments: 2   Visited by: 31 users
12.02.2022 - 16:37
Nice list indeed! I need to check few of those I missed by myself...
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13.02.2022 - 03:15
Jaro
Written by twisted_johnz on 12.02.2022 at 16:37

Nice list indeed! I need to check few of those I missed by myself...

Thank you!
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