In no particular order (after the top 5), here are my AOTY for 2021.
Some albums are not featured here, for which I've added description and Bandcamp link.
Enjoy :')

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SS | 02.01.2022

	1.	[[[ TOP 6: 9/10 OR ABOVE ]]]
	2.	First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
	3.	Beast In Black - Dark Connection
	4.	Khirki - Κτηνωδία
	5.	Omnium Gatherum - Origin
	6.	Hardcore Anal Hydrogen - Chimaera Monstrosa
	7.	Ophidian I - Desolate
	8.	[[[ OTHER OKAY FULL-LENGTHs, NOT IN ORDER ]]]
	9.	Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
	10.	Dessiderium - Aria
	11.	Eternity's End - Embers Of War
	12.	Malignant Altar - Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity
	13.	Effluence - Psychocephalic Spawning
	14.	Opera Diabolicus - Death On A Pale Horse
	15.	Aquilus - Bellum I
	16.	Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
	17.	Cambion - Conflagrate The Celestial Refugium
	18.	Frontierer - Oxidized
	19.	Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Tales Of Bloodshed And Treachery Nice black metal https://orderofytene.bandcamp.com/album/consanguineous-tales-of-bloodshed-and-treachery
	20.	Ikarie - Cuerpos En Sombra
	21.	Sermon Of Flames - I Have Seen The Light, And It Was Repulsive
	22.	MouthBreather - I'm Sorry Mr. Salesman Killer Mathcore & Metalcore stuff, great band https://mouthbreathercult.bandcamp.com/
	23.	Dordeduh - Har
	24.	Helloween - Helloween
	25.	Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
	26.	Domkraft - Seeds
	27.	Yautja - The Lurch
	28.	Mogwai - As The Love Continues
	29.	Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee At State's End!
	30.	Vola - Witness
	31.	Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
	32.	Sugar Wounds - Calico Dreams
	33.	Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
	34.	Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment 3
	35.	Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers
	36.	Dvne - Etemen Ænka
	37.	Iotunn - Access All Worlds
	38.	MxAxMxA - Долгожданный первенец Russian grindcore power-violence stuff https://mxaxmxa.bandcamp.com/album/--3
	39.	Tantric Bile - Seminal Baptism Extreme Free-jazz core with interesting sampling, by the same guy who operates Effluence https://tantricbile.bandcamp.com/
	40.	Old Nick - A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies
	41.	Every Time I Die - Radical
	42.	Demiser - Through The Gate Eternal
	43.	Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
	44.	Moon Unit - Differences In Language And Lifestyle
	45.	Resinator - Warp Lord
	46.	Vorvaň - Awakened
	47.	Moriya - Atma
	48.	The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
	49.	Exanimis - Marionnettiste
	50.	Abstract Void - Wishdream
	51.	Aztlan - Legión Mexica
	52.	Sleep Terror - Above Snakes
	53.	Intaglio - II
	54.	Sound Struggle - The Bridge https://soundstruggle.bandcamp.com/album/the-bridge One-man prog metal magnum opus
	55.	[[[ GOOD EPs ]]]
	56.	Spirit Adrift - Forge Your Future
	57.	Enshine - Transcending Fire
	58.	Brodequin - Perpetuation Of Suffering
	59.	Crippled Black Phoenix - Painful Reminder / Dead Is Dead
	60.	Cult Of Luna - The Raging River
	61.	Trauma Bond - The Violence of Spring Hyper grindcore power-violence stuff https://music.digitaldestruction.co/album/the-violence-of-spring
	62.	Nightmarer - Monolith Of Corrosion Dissonant death project with Nicholas McMaster from Krallice https://nightmarer.bandcamp.com/album/monolith-of-corrosion
	63.	Fernwah - Approaching Oblivion Prog-everything https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/approaching-oblivion