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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 hoping the lifting of restrictions will mean I get through slightly less music in the rest of this year, but let's see what the rest of 2021 has in store musically.

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 don't receive enough votes to be displayed in the results, as "staff write-ins".
- albums with a release date not in 2021

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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, Omnium Gatherum, Slaughter To Prevail, Swampbeast, The Beast Of Nod, The Monolith Deathcult and Vulvodynia. I've enjoyed those bands' new releases, just don't find them worthy of the company down below. Hopefully you will find a record you haven't heard of here. Feel free to recommend stuff in the comments. Enjoy!

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 for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

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 a novice metal fan or have been head banging for years.

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 stuff = win
Black and white = win, sometimes

Last updated on 29 July 2023.

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