My Favorite Albums of 2021

Far delayed, but nevertheless, here is a list of my top twenty albums released in 2021 - yes, you read correctly - 2021, not the last year! That one will come sooner, hopefully - perhaps, with additional words even.

But first, some honorable mentions here (click on the album art for YouTube links):

Civerous - Decrepit Flesh Relic

Succumb - XXI

Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal

Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death

Rat King - Omen

Noltem - Illusions in the Wake

Plebeian Grandstand - Rien Ne Suffit

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell

Alchemy of Flesh - Ageless Abominations

My Top 20 Albums from 2021

20. Lugubrum - Bruyne Kroon

19. Melvins - Working With God

18. Cult of Luna - Raging the River

17. Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

16. Archspire - Bleed the Future

15. Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment

14. Yoth Iria - As the Flame Withers

13. Tardigrada - Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit

12. Moral Collapse - S/T

11. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

10. Bummer - Dead Horse

09. Nadja - Luminous Rot

08. Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking

07. Black Sites - Untrue

06. Obsolete - Animate//Isolate

05. Kowloon Walled City - Piecework

04. Paysage d’Hiver - Geister

03. ATVM - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

02. Dvne - Etemen Ænka

01. Demonic Death Judge - Kneel

…and there we have it. For those interested, there is a Spotify playlist I made with all these albums as well. Check it out here.