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2021 Album Ranking

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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Created by Anghellic67 on 01.01.2021



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2021: Jan-Jun

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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Created by musclassia on 24.01.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)

This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Aara - En Ergô Einai
2.Aarni - Bathos
3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum
5.AATHMA - Avesta

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Created by Uxküll on 06.10.2020



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Top 200 Metal Releases Of All Time

I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could…

1.Sigh - In Somniphobia
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien

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Created by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024



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Top 20 2021 AotY

1.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
2.Veilburner - Lurkers In The Capsule Of Skull
3.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
4.Replicant - Malignant Reality
5.Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme Of Things

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Created by sgtrobo on 05.08.2021



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MSA 2021 All Write-ins - Best Albums By Genre

For those interested in suggestions of albums by genre

Removed:
- Trolls
- Limp bizkit outside of Alternative category
- albums already nominated. After the results, I will add the nominated albums that…

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2.Heleven - Into The Oceans
3.Imminence - Heaven In Hiding
4.Lantlôs - Wildhund
5.Leprous - Aphelion

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Created by Maxder on 28.02.2022



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Old Nick's Top-20 Of 2021

My best and most played stuff from 2021. The order of preference is as accurate as it can be.

Best EP: Melancholia - Static Church.
Best demo: Mace ‘N’ Chain - Upon The Anvil Formed.
Best video: Iron…

1.Soen - Imperial
2.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
3.Unto Others - Strength
4.Lake Of Tears - Ominous
5.Lucifer's Fall - III - From The Deep

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Created by nikarg on 05.01.2022



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Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)

This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Death - Symbolic
3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



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2021

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

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

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Created by Jacob Butcher on 07.01.2022



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2021

1.Turnstile - Glow On
2.The Armed - Ultrapop
3.Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
4.Panopticon - . . . And Again Into The Light
5.Thirdface - Do It With A Smile

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Created by Marc-Antoine on 15.01.2021



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(A Top 20 Of) What Good Taste Looks Like In 2021

Favourite albums of 2021. Will most likely be obsolete in a few days.

1.Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - Corrupted Pillars Of Vanity
2.Converge - Bloodmoon: I [Collaboration]
3.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
4.Funeral Mist - Deiform
5.Year Of No Light - Consolamentum

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Created by Deadsoulman on 11.01.2022



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2021

Albums i've enjoyed in 2021…

1.Turnstile - Glow On
2.Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
3.Herzel - Le Dernier Rempart
4.The Flight Of Sleipnir - Eventide
5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb

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Created by Tornado Of Souls on 07.03.2021



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2021 My Picks

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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2.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
3.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
4.Khirki - Κτηνωδία
5.Omnium Gatherum - Origin

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Created by SS on 02.01.2022



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Top 100 albums 2021

1.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
2.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
3.Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4.Leprous - Aphelion
5.Soen - Imperial

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Created by AngryF on 01.07.2021



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My Mostly Metal Playlist - Top 100 (so Far) of 2021

Good morrow
This is Prnzo
this list is probably for...
idk, the more adventurous...
jack-of-all-trades listener
lots of apples/oranges here
hopefully this top list helps
at least one MS'er
and if…

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
2.Dordeduh - Har
3.Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI)
4.The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls
5.Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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Created by prnzokoshiroltra on 04.03.2021