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

Created by: Jacob Butcher | 07.01.2022


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
6. Plebeian Grandstand - Rien Ne Suffit
7. StarGazer - Psychic Secretions
8. Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû - Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû
9. Noise Trail Immersion - Curia
10. Vildhjarta - Måsstaden Under Vatten
11. Replicant - Malignant Reality
12. Utopia - Stalker
13. Carcass - Torn Arteries
14. Soothsayer - Echoes Of The Earth
15. Paranorm - Empyrean
16. Diskord - Degenerations
17. Reverorum Ib Malacht - Svag I Döden
18. Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
19. Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
20. Furia - W Śnialni
21. Inferno - Paradeigma (Phosphenes Of Aphotic Eternity)
22. VLK - Transdecendence [EP]
23. Deviant Process - Nurture
24. Altarage - Succumb
25. Fuoco Fatuo - Obsidian Katabasis
26. Eximperitus - Šahrartu
27. Archspire - Bleed The Future
28. Headshrinker - Callous Indifference
29. Asphyx - Necroceros
30. Sepulcros - Vazio
31. Portal - Avow
32. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
33. Voices - Breaking The Trauma Bond
34. Ars Magna Umbrae - Throne Between Worlds
35. The Silver - Ward Of Roses
36. LLNN - Unmaker
37. Veilburner - Lurkers In The Capsule Of Skull
38. Norse - Ascetic
39. Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia
40. Panopticon - .​.​.​And Again Into The Light
41. Grey Aura - Zwart Vierkant
42. Polemicist - Return Of The Sophist
43. Alkuharmonian Kantaja - Shadowy Peripherals
44. Kreationist - Dans L'Interminable
45. Ghost Bath - Self Loather
46. Zao - The Crimson Corridor
47. First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
48. Dagtum - Revered Decadence
49. Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Futurista
50. Creature (FRA) - Eloge De l'Ombre
51. Ophidian I - Desolate
52. Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
53. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
54. The Temple (NZL) - The Temple
55. Dordeduh - Har
56. Krallice - Demonic Wealth
57. Japanische Kampfhörspiele - Neues Aus Dem Halluzinogenozinozän
58. Iotunn - Access All Worlds
59. Rinuwat - Dua Naga
60. Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door De Geest Der Zielsontluiking
61. Omination - NGR
62. Muyubyosha - Noč Na Krayu Sveta
63. Mānbryne - Heilsweg: O Udręce Ciała I Tułaczce Duszy
64. Pa Vesh En - Maniac Manifest
65. King Woman - Celestial Blues
66. Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers
67. Mefitis - Offscourings
68. Modern Rites - Monuments
69. Sunless - Ylem
70. Rivers Of Nihil - The Work
71. Wolves In The Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
72. The Armed - Ultrapop
73. Grima - Rotten Garden
74. The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
75. Vouna - Atropos
76. Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment
77. Impure Wilhelmina - Antidote
78. The Body - I've Seen All I Need To See
79. Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
80. Succumb - XXI
81. Gravesend - Methods Of Human Disposal
82. Stortregn - Impermanence
83. Ophiuchi - Shibboleth
84. Old Nick - A New Generation Of Vampiric Conspiracies


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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