The concept of this list is not exceptionally well defined, but I'm circling a basic sound of lean, fast-paced metal with high-pitched vocals that tend to be on the harsher side. The album that inspired…

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection

3.Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot

4.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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1.Orden Ogan - Final Days

2.Blaze Bayley - War Within Me

3.Running Wild - Blood On Blood

4.Bloodbound - Creatures Of The Dark Realm

5.Blazon Stone - Damnation

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1.The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show

2.Aeon - God Ends Here

3.Archspire - Bleed The Future

4.Sumo Cyco - Initiation

5.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Swagger & Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole

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1.Gojira - Fortitude

2.Archspire - Bleed The Future

3.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

4.Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness

5.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

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Another year, another list. Huh time flies. First 10 in order I think was best of the best. Last 10 worst of the worst. Rest is in a order as I think they fits (based on todays perspective) , maybe december…

1.Thyrathen - ThanatOpsis

2.Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void

3.Cult Of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion

4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner

5.Icon Of Sin - Icon Of Sin

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1.Wolves In The Throne Room - Primordial Arcana

2.Unleashed - No Sign Of Life

3.Whitechapel - Kin

4.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

5.Thulcandra - A Dying Wish

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My personal favorite 75 metal albums of the year, this year has been pretty good when comes to heavy metal, especially within black and melodic death metal, also a good year for symphonic metal.

My favourite…

1.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

2.Helloween - Helloween

3.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

4.Turnstile - Glow On

5.Havengarth - The Path Through Reminiscence

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1.Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

2.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

3.Archgoat - Worship The Eternal Darkness

4.Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death

5.Enforced - Kill Grid

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In no particular order:


2021 Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64dcGhNKM5p9TF9ALQBVHN?si=jaureWTyTHiTqMpvY3Q-5A&utm_source=copy-link…

1.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

2.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle

3.Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom

4.SpiritWorld - Pagan Rhythms

5.Unto Others - Strength

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List of artists/albums heard with head & heart.

1.Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile

2.Møl - Diorama

3.Spaceslug - Memorial

4.LE MONDE PAR LE FEU - À NÉANT

5.Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

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Do you know this feeling when you stumble across a random word, and then suddenly that name pops up just about everywhere? That specific term haunting yours truly has long been "Portland, Oregon".

1.Abhorrent Affliction - Forever Will He Reign

2.Acathexis - Acathexis

3.Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate

4.Ævangelist - Dream An Evil Dream III

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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So earlier in 2021, I actually finished a nine year old list, and I thought starting this in July and backfilling with previous listens would be a good idea. Turns out not jotting down some thoughts about…

1.Horndal - Lake Drinker

2.Unto Others - Strength

3.Obscura - A Valediction

4.Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality

5.Asphyx - Necroceros

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My List of the releases made during 2021. Score based on the excel sheet i've made https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hk_3gkpCfeKtdZNus_z3sxg-U8XJ_MqklfC8tbealaE/edit?usp=sharing…

1.Decline Of The I - Johannes

2.Vokonis - Odyssey

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

4.Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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The List of Albums releasing in 2021 that I listened/will listen to.
The Ratings are my personal opinion!…

1.Svrm - Розпад

2.K.F.R - Shayṭān 2.0

3.Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice

4.Grima - Rotten Garden

5.Asphyx - Necroceros

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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,…

1.Vulgaris - Asundre

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Heliocentric - Ishmael

4.Decline Of The I - Johannes

5.Dordeduh - Har

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