My Favorite Albums 2021

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My Favorite Albums 2021

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A list by
Vellichor
Created
January 10, 2024
Entries
134
Endorsements
2
Same as before but for 2021. Have some more to add that I’ll get to sometime soon.
134.
1.
Chvrches - Screen Violence
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 9.5 (Synthpop)
134.
2.
Blackshape - Blackshape
🇺🇸 9 (Mathcore)
134.
3.
Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power
🇺🇸 9 (Alternative Pop)
134.
4.
Jess And The Ancient Ones - Vertigo
🇫🇮 8.5 (Psychedelic Rock)
134.
5.
Dvne - Etemen Ænka
🇬🇧 8.5 (Sludge)
134.
6.
Khirki - Κτηνωδία
🇬🇷 8.5 (Hard Rock, Stoner)
134.
7.
Beldame - Unrequited
🇬🇧 8.5 (Doom, Darkwave)
134.
8.
Sgàile - Ideals & Morality
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8.5 (Post-Metal)
134.
9.
The Answer Lies In The Black Void - Forlorn
🇭🇺 🇳🇱 8 (Gothic Doom)
134.
10.
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
🇺🇸 8 (Djent, Post-Hardcore)
134.
11.
Appalooza - The Holy Of Holies
🇫🇷 8 (Alternative)
134.
12.
Squid - Bright Green Field
🇬🇧 8 (Post-Punk)
134.
13.
Leprous - Aphelion
🇳🇴 8 (Progressive Rock)
134.
14.
Wheel - Resident Human
🇫🇮 8 (Progressive)
134.
15.
Hippotraktor - Meridian
🇧🇪 8 (Progressive, Post-Metal)
134.
16.
The Hardkiss - Жива і не залізна
🇺🇦 8 (Rock)
134.
17.
Rivers Of Nihil - The Work
🇺🇸 8 (Progresive Death)
134.
18.
Shedfromthebody - To Hold The Ripened Sun
🇫🇮 8 (Doomgaze)
134.
19.
Silent Planet - Iridescent
🇺🇸 8 (Progressive Metalcore)
134.
20.
London Grammar - Californian Soil
🇬🇧 8 (Synthpop)
134.
21.
White Moth Black Butterfly - The Cost of Dreaming
🇮🇳 🇬🇧 8 (Progressive Pop)
134.
22.
Capra - In Transmission
🇺🇸 8 (Hardcore)
134.
23.
Froglord - The Mystic Toad
🇬🇧 8 (Sludge)
134.
24.
Kowloon Walled City - Piecework
🇺🇸 8 (Hardcore, Sludge)
134.
25.
Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Nordurljósum
🇫🇮 8 (Darkwave)
134.
26.
Ylva De Lune - I
🇩🇪 8 (Post-Black)
134.
27.
The Killers - Pressure Machine
🇺🇸 8 (Americana Folk)
134.
28.
Still - { }
🇬🇧 8 (Blackened Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal)
134.
29.
Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I [Collaboration]
🇺🇸 8 (Post-Hardcore, Metalcore)
134.
30.
Keygen Church - ░█░█░░█░█░█░
🇮🇹 8 (Instrumental Symphonic Black)
134.
31.
Altesia - Embryo
🇫🇷 8 (Progressive)
134.
32.
Domkraft - Seeds
🇸🇪 8 (Stoner, Sludge)
134.
33.
The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
🇺🇸 8 (Blackened Sludge)
134.
34.
Vivid Illusion - Vivid Illusion
🇺🇸 8 (Blackgaze, Post-Metal)
134.
35.
Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
🇬🇧 7.5 (Art Rock, Post-Punk)
134.
36.
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
🇩🇰 7.5 (Progressive, Melodic Death)
134.
37.
Dreamwell - Modern Grotesque
🇺🇸 7.5 (Screamo, Indie)
134.
38.
Jointhugger - Surrounded By Vultures
🇳🇴 7.5 (Sludge)
134.
39.
Soen - Imperial
🇸🇪 7.5 (Alternative Progressive)
134.
40.
Royal Blood - Typhoons
🇬🇧 7.5 (Alternative Rock, Stoner Rock)
134.
41.
Superlynx - Electric Temple
🇳🇴 7.5 (Stoner Doom)
134.
42.
Massen - Contraesthetic
🇩🇪 7.5 (Melodic Black)
134.
43.
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
🇺🇸 7.5 (Indie Rock)
134.
44.
Gåte - Nord
🇳🇴 7.5 (Folk Rock)
134.
45.
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
🇺🇸 7.5 (Progressive Rock)
134.
46.
Garbage - No Gods, No Masters
🇺🇸 7.5 (Alternative Rock)
134.
47.
Sunnata - Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth
🇵🇱 7.5 (Stoner, Sludge)
134.
48.
Epica - Ωmega
🇳🇱 7.5 (Symphonic Power)
134.
49.
Vola - Witness
🇩🇰 7.5 (Djent, Progressive)
134.
50.
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
🇬🇧 7.5 (Art Pop)
134.
51.
Charlotte Wessels - Tales From Six Feet Under
🇳🇱 7.5 (Art Rock, Pop Rock, Symphonic Rock)
134.
52.
Humanity's Last Breath - Välde
🇸🇪 7.5 (Djent, Technical Deathcore)
134.
53.
Underdark - Our Bodies Burned Bright On Re​-​Entry
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Black)
134.
54.
Foxing - Drawing Down the Moon
🇺🇸 7.5 (Indie Rock, Emo)
134.
55.
Jerry Cantrell - Brighten
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative Rock)
134.
56.
Rid of Me - Traveling
🇺🇸 7 (Noise Punk)
134.
57.
Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
🇩🇪 7 (Black, Death)
134.
58.
Muralist - Fathoms
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative)
134.
59.
Somnuri - Nefarious Wave
🇺🇸 7 (Sludge, Hardcore)
134.
60.
Gojira - Fortitude
🇫🇷 7 (Alternative)
134.
61.
Glassing - Twin Dream
🇺🇸 7 (Post-Hardcore, Atmospheric Black)
134.
62.
Dead Nancy - Death Stories
🇺🇸 7 (Alternative, Progressive)
134.
63.
Cave Sermon - Memory Spear
🇦🇺 7 (Post-Metal)
134.
64.
Kyros - Recover
🇬🇧 7 (Neo-Progressive)
134.
65.
Indigo de Souza - Any Shape You Take
🇺🇸 7 (Art Pop)
134.
66.
Rye - Вечное
🇷🇺 7 (Blackgaze)
134.
67.
Carved In Stone - Wafts of Mist & the Forgotten Belief
🇩🇪 7 (Neofolk)
134.
68.
Svdestada - Azabache
🇪🇸 7 (Crust Punk, Post-Hardcore)
134.
69.
AFI - Bodies
🇺🇸 7 (Post-Punk)
134.
70.
Firienholt - By The Waters Of Awakening
🇬🇧 7 (Atmospheric Black)
134.
71.
Blackbriar - The Cause Of Shipwreck
🇳🇱 7 (Symphonic)
134.
72.
Lady Ehepr - Incorrigible Misandry
🇺🇸 7 (Horrorcore)
134.
73.
Iceage - Seek Shelter
🇬🇧 7 (Art Punk)
134.
74.
Portrayal Of Guilt - We Are Always Alone
🇺🇸 7 (Blackened Post-Hardcore)
134.
75.
IDLES - Crawler
🇬🇧 7 (Post-Punk)
134.
76.
Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul
🇯🇵 7 (Post-Rock)
134.
77.
Thurnin - Menhir
🇳🇱 7 (Neofolk)
134.
78.
Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
🇺🇸 7 (Pop)
134.
79.
Heave Blood And Die - Post People
🇳🇴 7 (Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Post-Metal)
134.
80.
Midwife - Luminol
🇺🇸 7 (Noise, Trip Hop, Shoegaze)
134.
81.
Immortal Guardian - Psychosomatic
🇺🇸 7 (Progressive Metal)
134.
82.
Drune - Drune
🇺🇸 6.5 (Stoner)
134.
83.
Hail Spirit Noir - Mannequins
🇬🇷 6.5 (Synthwave)
134.
84.
Red Eye Temple - Vortex
🇦🇹 6.5 (Progressive)
134.
85.
Abstract Void - Wishdream
🇷🇺 6.5 (Synthwave, Black)
134.
86.
Emptiness - Vide
🇧🇪 6.5 (Darkwave)
134.
87.
Portrayal Of Guilt - Christfucker
🇺🇸 6.5 (Blackened Post-Hardcore)
134.
88.
Lorde - Solar Power
🇳🇿 6.5 (Pop)
134.
89.
Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World
🇺🇸 6.5 (Progressive)
134.
90.
:Of The Wand And The Moon: - Your Love Can’t Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow
🇩🇰 6.5 (Neofolk)
134.
91.
Chrystabell - Midnight Star
🇬🇧 6.5 (Synthpop)
134.
92.
Poppy - Flux
🇺🇸 6.5 (Alternative Rock)
134.
93.
Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy
🇺🇸 6.5 (Pop)
134.
94.
Monosphere - The Puppeteer
🇩🇪 6.5 (Djent, Progressive)
134.
95.
Déhà - A Fleur De Peau - IV - No More Dawn
🇧🇪 6.5 (Depressive Black)
134.
96.
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club
🇺🇸 6 (Folk Pop)
134.
97.
Lana Del Rey - Blue Bannisters
🇺🇸 6 (Folk Pop)
134.
98.
Grand Cadaver - Into The Maw Of Death
🇸🇪 6 (Death)
134.
99.
Vexed - Culling Culture
🇬🇧 6 (Alternative)
134.
100.
Blurr Thrower - Les Voûtes
🇫🇷 6 (Black)
134.
101.
An Autumn - As The Morning Dawns We Close Our Eyes
🇳🇱 6 (Blackgaze)
134.
102.
Lucifer - Lucifer IV
🇸🇪 6 (Doom, Hard Rock)
134.
103.
Marc Collin & Chrystabell - Strange as Angels
🇬🇧 6 (Synthpop, Darkwave)
134.
104.
Therion - Leviathan
🇸🇪 6 (Symphonic)
134.
105.
MØAA - Euphoric Recall
🇺🇸 6 (Chillwave, Dream Pop)
134.
106.
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
🇬🇧 6 (Mathcore)
134.
107.
Candlebox - Wolves
🇺🇸 6 (Alternative Rock)
134.
108.
Coldplay - Music of the Spheres
🇬🇧 5.5 (Pop)
134.
109.
Anatomy of Habit - Even if It Takes a Lifetime
🇺🇸 5.5 (Post-Metal, Doom)
134.
110.
Full Of Hell - Garden Of Burning Apparitions
🇺🇸 5 (Grindcore)
134.
111.
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
🇬🇧 5 (Art Pop, Djent)
134.
112.
Loathe - The Things They Believe
🇬🇧 5 (Ambient)
134.
113.
feeble little horse - Hayday
🇺🇸 5 (Indie Rock)
134.
114.
Stonefromthesky - Undungeon
🇺🇦 4.5 (Video Game Soundtrack)
134.
115.
AViVA - Volume II
🇦🇺 4.5 (Synthpop)
134.
116.
—— EPs and Splits ——
134.
117.
Novere - Soulless Elements
🇬🇧 7.5 (Post-Metal)
134.
118.
Guhts - Blood Feather
🇺🇸 7.5 (Armospheric Sludge, Post-Metal)
134.
119.
Satanic Ritual Glorification - Satanic Ritual Glorification
🇺🇸 7.5 (Psychedelic Occult Rock)
134.
120.
Cave Sermon - Fabricate
🇦🇺 7.5 (Sludge, Post-Metal)
134.
121.
Valeras - Tell Me Now
🇲🇽 7 (Indie Rock)
134.
122.
Lithik - Weather The Storm
🇦🇺 7 (Gothic Doom Metal)
134.
123.
Mountain Caller - Chronicle: Prologue
🇬🇧 7 (Post-Metal)
134.
124.
Ropes Inside A Hole - Riahpstvrt
🇮🇹 7 (Post-Rock)
134.
125.
Hyloxalus - Aposematic
🇨🇦 7 (Symphonic Power)
134.
126.
Pons - Pons Estate
🇬🇧 7 (Noise Rock)
134.
127.
Harul - भराड़ी घाट / Bharari Ghat
🇳🇵 6.5 (Doom Folk)
134.
128.
Lord Goblin - The Ordeal
🇬🇧 6.5 (Epic Heavy, Power)
134.
129.
Erra - Erra
🇺🇸 6.5 (Metalcore)
134.
130.
The Mosaic Window - Hollow
🇺🇸 6.5 (Black)
134.
131.
Ὁπλίτης - Ἡ Εἰκών
🇨🇳 6.5 (Black)
134.
132.
Jenny Owen Youngs - Echo Mountain
🇺🇸 6.5 (Indie Pop)
134.
133.
Cosmic Void - All Is Lost In Time
🇩🇪 6 (Death-Doom)
134.
134.
Stonefromthesky - Neowise
🇺🇦 5.5 (Electronica)
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These are two of my favorite releases from 2021 that I highly recommend:

Seth - La Morsure Du Christ: Exceptional black metal album with fantastic atmospheric synth work and memorable riff melodies.

Khirki - Κτηνωδία:
This is only my favorite release in the last five years.
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Written by AndyMetalFreak on 10.01.2024 at 14:06

These are two of my favorite releases from 2021 that I highly recommend:

Seth - La Morsure Du Christ: Exceptional black metal album with fantastic atmospheric synth work and memorable riff melodies.

Khirki - Κτηνωδία:
This is only my favorite release in the last five years.

Thanks, I’ve added them to my list I’ll check them out sometime this week!
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