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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: Jul-Dec

At around 450 album, I've been averaging something like 75 new albums per month since the start of 2021, not to mention albums I only listen to 1-2 songs of before moving on. It's been intense, and I'm…

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
2.Year Of No Light - Consolamentum
3.Be'lakor - Coherence
4.LLNN - Unmaker
5.Spaceslug - Memorial

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Created by musclassia on 02.07.2021



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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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Best Of 2021 Death Metal

Another year, another list. My favorite DM from 2021, listed alphabetically by band name with subgenres. Some notable omissions include: Altarage, Asphyx, At The Gates, Be'lakor, Deviant Process, Massacre,…

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Abiotic - Ikigai
4.Aborted - ManiaCult
5.Abscession - Rot Of Ages

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Created by Jaro on 11.01.2022



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200+ Favorite Albums

Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Opeth - Blackwater Park
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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Created by Qualeen on 30.09.2021



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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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Best 2021

1.Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
2.Abiotic - Ikigai
3.Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
4.Michael Schenker Fest - Immortal
5.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

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Created by Depth land on 27.02.2021



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Journey Through 2021

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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Created by pandrstudios on 29.01.2021



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Essential Metal/ Hard Rock Albums

It's possible that you've glossed over some of these because they're too "popular". Maybe you've never heard of a few.
Regardless, these are albums that I think everyone should hear at least once if you're…

1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
2.Summoning - Stronghold
3.Death - Human
4.Rush - A Farewell To Kings
5.The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

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Created by Ryanm123 on 05.11.2020



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My Favorite Album Covers

Mind map:

Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox…

1.Emperor - Reverence
2.Wintersun - Wintersun
3.The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure
4.Dissection - Live Legacy
5.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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Created by Qualeen on 29.03.2023



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AOTY 2021

Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.Humanity's Last Breath - Välde
2.Gojira - Fortitude
3.Archspire - Bleed The Future
4.Inferi - Vile Genesis
5.Hypocrisy - Worship

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Created by MIXHELL on 06.02.2021



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Top 2021

1.Asphyx - Necroceros
2.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
3.Fulci - Exhumed Information
4.Baest - Necro Sapiens
5.Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell

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Created by KaninStryparn on 04.01.2021



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My Essential 250 Metal Albums

My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

1.Æther Realm - Tarot
2.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
3.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience
4.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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Created by Ryanm123 on 23.12.2023



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My Top 2021

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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Created by AdamL on 03.12.2021