These are my favourite albums from the year 2021, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Wheel - Resident Human

2.Carcass - Torn Arteries

3.Mastodon - Hushed And Grim

4.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

5.Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

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Albums I've listened to released between January - March

1.Soen - Imperial

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

4.Cult Of Luna - The Raging River

5.Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void

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After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who TF knows when we might return to a semblance of normality. Until then, I'll be trying to make sure that nothing noteworthy passes my radar.

1.Vulgaris - Asundre

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Heliocentric - Ishmael

4.Decline Of The I - Johannes

5.Dordeduh - Har

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1.Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Mære

3.Monolord - Your Time To Shine

4.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

5.Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Noktvrn

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2 Anno Covidi

1.Khirki - Κτηνωδία

2.Band-Maid - Unseen World

3.Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare

4.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

5.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

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1.Thurnin - Menhir

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Mӕre

3.Ablaze My Sorrow - Among Ashes And Monoliths

4.Lake Of Tears - Ominous

5.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

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2021 Playlist

1.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

2.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

3.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

4.Wheel - Resident Human

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

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1.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

3.Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns

4.Grima - Rotten Garden

5.Gojira - Fortitude

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1.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

2.Therion - Leviathan

3.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

4.Soen - Imperial

5.Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

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