Top 10 2021
Thank You one and all who voted al year. Please see below for some new metal music. As always this list is our way to keep up with new music and we are less worried about what is #1 versus what we haven't heard. We have done quarter lists for a while so you can see what has been hot all year and what has fallen off versus what is acting like the fucking own the place. Also see the Spotify Link for a direct line into how to annoy your coworkers while looking like a maniac. We will see you in the Spring!
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Top 10 of 2021
Position / Album | Vote Count | Third Quarter Position | Second Quarter Position | First Quarter Position | Genre |
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#1. Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime | 81 | -- | -- | -- | Melodic Black / Dungeon Synth |
#2. Worm - Foreverglade | 73 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Doom |
#3. Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst | 70 | #3 | #2 | -- | Black |
#4. Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell | 67 | #1 | -- | -- | Epic? Death/Doom |
#5. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning | 66 | #4 | #4 | #1 | Black / Death / Final Boss Music |
#6. Panopticon - ...And Again Into The Light | 63 | #2 | #1 | -- | Atmospheric Black / Folk / Ken Burns Soundtrack |
#7. Sijjin - Sumerian Promises | 63 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Thrash |
#8. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm | 54 | #6 | #3 | #2 | Atmospheric Black |
#9. Archspire - Bleed The Future | 48 | -- | -- | -- | Tech Death 5000 |
#10. 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Mett | 44 | -- | -- | -- | Blackened Death/ World of Tanks |
StarGazer - Psychic Secretions | 35 | ## | #5 | #5 | Avant Black / Death |
Ethereal Shroud - Trisaigon | 35 | -- | -- | -- | Depressive Black / Funeral Doom |
Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal | 33 | -- | -- | -- | Atmospheric Death / Doom |
The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires | 32 | ## | ## | #6 | Atmospheric Black / Doom |
Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade | 31 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death |
Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman | 29 | ## | ## | -- | Black / Ambient / Death Cleric |
Concrete Winds - Nerve Butcherer | 29 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Persistent Headaches |
Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity | 29 | -- | -- | -- | Death |
Dvne - Etemen Ænka | 28 | ## | #7 | #10 | Progressive Sludge/Stoner |
Steel Bearing Hand - Stay In Hell | 27 | #9 | #10 | -- | Black / Thrash |
Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment | 27 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Doom |
Enforced - Kill Grid | 26 | ## | #6 | #5 | Thrash / Crossover |
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound | 25 | ## | ## | #10 | Gothic |
Thy Catafalque - Vadak | 25 | -- | -- | -- | Avant / PHD Thesis |
Heavy Sentence - Bang To Rights | 24 | ## | ## | -- | Heavy / Judas Priest Spray Painted On A Wall |
Archgoat - Worship The Eternal Darkness | 24 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Black / White / Red Cover |
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails | 23 | ## | -- | -- | 404 Genre Not Found |
Dungeon Serpent - World of Sorrows | 23 | #8 | -- | -- | Melodic Death |
First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle | 23 | -- | -- | -- | Neoclassical Tech Death / Bach Was A Metalhead |
Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality | 22 | ## | -- | -- | Broken Sewer Pipe Death |
Herzel - Le Dernier Rempart | 21 | #10 | ## | #8 | Epic Heavy |
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana | 20 | ## | -- | -- | Atmospheric Black |
Unto Others (Idle Hands) - Strength | 20 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy / Gothic / Dark Poetry |
Oxygen Destroyer - Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind | 20 | #5 | -- | -- | Black / Death / Making Toy Monsters Fight Each Other |
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim | 19 | -- | -- | -- | Progressive / Rock |
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse | 19 | ## | ## | ## | Avant / Tech Death / Phyrexian Unlife |
Carcass - Torn Arteries | 19 | -- | -- | -- | Melodic Death N Rollibilly |
Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia | 19 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Astral Projection |
Atvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless | 19 | ## | ## | -- | Mushrooms On Death Metal |
Outre-Tombe | 18 | -- | -- | -- | Death |
Stortregn - Impermanence | 17 | ## | ## | -- | Melodic Black Death |
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimaged | 17 | ## | ## | -- | Death |
Wheel - Preserved In Time | 16 | ## | ## | -- | Doom |
Lamp of Murmuur - Punishment And Devotion / Submission and Slavery | 16 | ## | -- | -- | Black |
Nekromantheon - Visions of Trismegistos | 16 | ## | ## | -- | Thrash |
Khemmis - Deciever | 16 | -- | -- | -- | Doom |
Gabestok - Én gang rådden, altid rådden | 16 | ## | ## | -- | Genre Pending |
Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle | 15 | ## | ## | ## | Black / Death / WW1 Dorkery |
Craven Idol - Forked Tounges | 15 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Thrash |
Portal - Avow | 15 | ## | #8 | -- | Experimental Easy Listening |
Demiser - through The Gate Eternal | 14 | ## | ## | ## | Black / Thrash |
Iotunn - Access All Worlds | 14 | ## | ## | -- | Progressive Melodic Death |
Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity | 14 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Falling Down The Stairs |
Gravesend - Methods Of Human Disposal | 14 | ## | ## | #5 | Black / Grind / Sewage |
Møl - Diorama | 13 | -- | -- | -- | Post Black |
Helloween - Helloween | 13 | ## | ## | -- | Power / Speed |
Funeral Mist - Deiform | 13 | -- | -- | -- | Vlack |
Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment | 13 | ## | -- | -- | I Wish Portal Was Less Accessible |
200 Stab Wounds - Piles of Festering Decomposition | 13 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy...haha j/k...Death |
Ophidian I - Desolate | 13 | ## | -- | -- | Tech Death / Ancient Alien Arpeggios |
Gojira - Fortitude | 13 | ## | ## | -- | Progressive / Groove / Death / Crystals |
Between the Buried and Me - Colors II | 12 | -- | -- | -- | Progressive / Tech |
Obscura - A Valediction | 12 | -- | -- | -- | Progressive / Tech Death |
Mefitis - Offscourings | 12 | ## | -- | -- | Black |
Morgul Blade - Fell sorcery Abound | 12 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy / Black(?) |
Galvanizer - Prying Sight of Imperception | 11 | ## | -- | -- | Grind / Weird Kid In the Back |
Rivers of Nihil - The Work | 11 | -- | -- | -- | Progreessive / Tech death |
Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice | 11 | ## | ## | #4 | Bolt Thrower In A Glacier |
Drawn and Quartered - Congregation Pestilence | 11 | ## | -- | -- | Immolated Death |
Dordeduh - Har | 11 | ## | ## | -- | Atmospheric Folk/Black Metal |
Lvcifyre - The Broken Seal | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death |
Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking | 10 | ## | -- | -- | dit is geweldig |
The Silver - Ward of Roses | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Post Black |
Be'lakor - Coherence | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Melodic Death |
Kaatayra - Inpariquipê | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Folk / Black |
Grima - Rotten Garden | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Atmospheric Black |
Dödsrit - Mortal Coil | 10 | ## | ## | -- | Atmospheric Black / Crust |
Phrenelith - Chimaerea | 10 | -- | -- | -- | Death |
Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers | 9 | -- | -- | -- | Melodic Doom / Death |
Transilvania - Of Sleep And Death | 9 | ## | ## | #6 | Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft |
Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Tales of Bloodshed and Treachery | 9 | ## | -- | -- | Black |
Devoid of Thought - Outer World Graves | 9 | ## | -- | -- | Death |
Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors | 9 | ## | ## | -- | Death / Black |
Replicant - Malignant Reality | 9 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Wall Punching |
Windfaerer - Breaths of Elder Dawn | 9 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Folk / Ren Faires |
Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate | 9 | -- | -- | -- | Black DÆth |
Amenra - De Doorn | 9 | ## | -- | -- | Doom / Sludge / Fuck This Day |
Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath | 9 | ## | ## | -- | Black |
Ustalost - Before the Glinting Spell Unvests | 9 | -- | -- | -- | Black |
Cân Bardd - Devoured by the Oak | 9 | -- | -- | -- | Epic Folk / Black / Elf Sorcerer |
Misotheist - For the Glory of your Redeemer | 9 | ## | ## | #4 | Black / Witches |
Bewitcher - Cursed Be Thy Kingdom | 8 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Speed |
Passéisme - Eminence | 8 | ## | -- | -- | Black |
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon I | 8 | -- | -- | -- | Hands Up In The Air In Confusion |
Alustrium - A Monument To Silence | 8 | ## | ## | -- | Melodic Death |
Wharflurch - Psychedelic Realms ov Hell | 8 | ## | -- | -- | Death / Doom / Blacklight Posters |
Diskord - Degenerations | 8 | ## | -- | -- | Tech Thrash |
Carcinoma - Labascation | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Death / Noise / No Hugs |
Green Lung - Black Harvest | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Stoner Doom / Hard Rock |
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War | 7 | ## | ## | -- | Black |
Escumergamënt - ...ni degu fazentz escumergament e mesorga... | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Black |
Trhä - Endlhëtonëg | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Raw Black / Dungeon Synth |
Kauan - Ice Fleet | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Post Rock |
Bonehunter - Dark Blood Reincarnation System | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Thrash / Punk |
Harakiri for the Sky - Harakiri for the Sky | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Post Black |
Inferi - Vile Genesis | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Death |
Cadaveric Fumes - Echoing Chambers of the Soul | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Huffing Casket Fumes |
Veilburner - Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death |
Sermon of Flames - I Have Seen The Light, And It Was Repulsive | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death / Bile |
Empyrium - Über den Sternen | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Neofolk |
Asphyx - Necroceros | 7 | ## | ## | #10 | Death |
Sanguisugabogg - Pornographic Seizures | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Death + More Death |
Mystras - Empires Vanquished And Dismantled | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Black |
Nunslaughter - Red is the Color of Ripping Death | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Devotional Music |
Tower - Shock To The System | 7 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy |
Demoniac - So It Goes (2020) | 7 | ## | ## | -- | Black / Guys...2020 |
Violet Cold - Empire Of Love | 7 | ## | -- | -- | Post Black |
Morbific - Ominous Seep of Putridity | 7 | ## | ## | -- | More Sewage Leaks |
Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme of Things | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Therapy |
Monolord - Your Time To Shine | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Stoner / Doom / The Bunny Is Just Sleeping Right? |
Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile | 6 | -- | -- | -- | English dark-wave metal band |
Wraith - Undo The Chains | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Speed |
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu | 6 | ## | -- | -- | Harsh Noise Wall |
Exodus - Persona Non Grata | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Thrash |
Ancient Mastery - Chapter One: Across The Mountains Of The Drämmarskol | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Epic Black |
Spectral Lore - Ετερόφωτος | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Αστέρας |
Black Soul Horde - Horros From The Void | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy / Power |
Dipygus - Bushmeat | 6 | ## | ## | #7 | Death / Bigfoot Tapes |
Alda - A Distant Fire | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Atmospheric Black |
Paranorm - Empyrean | 6 | ## | ## | -- | Progressive Thrash |
Hulder - Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry | 6 | -- | -- | -- | Black |
Wormwitch - Wolf Hex | 6 | ## | -- | -- | Blackened Death |
Ungfell - Es grauet | 6 | ## | ## | -- | Black / Path of the Totem Warrior |
Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers | 6 | ## | -- | -- | Black / Greek Demons |
Wanton Attack - Wanton Attack | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy |
So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Post Black / Shoegaze |
Lantlôs - Wildhund | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Post Black |
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Pt. 2 | 5 | ## | ## | -- | Atmospheric Black / DMT in the Dark |
Skepticism - Companion | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Funeral Doom |
King Woman - Celestial Blues | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Post Metal / Doom |
Krolok - Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Atmospheric Black / Čarodejnice |
Pharaoh - The Powers That Be | 5 | ## | -- | -- | Power |
Lunar Shadow - Wish To Leave | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Heavy |
Mānbryne - Heilsweg: O udręce ciała i tułaczce duszy | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Black |
Plebeian Grandstand - Rien ne suffit | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Avant / Does Not Play With Other Classmates |
Civerous - Decrepit Flesh Relic | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death / Magic Eye Cover |
Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions | 5 | -- | -- | -- | What Do YOU Think Full Of Hell Is? |
Aquilus - Bellum I | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Neoclassical Black/Folk |
Eternity's End - Embers of War | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Progressive / Power / Fighting Robots |
Morgal - Nightmare Lord | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Black x Satan |
Kowloon Walled City - Piecework | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Sludge? .... Maybe |
Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Its Best We Dont Get Into "Genres" |
Anatomia - Corporeal Torment | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Death / Doom |
Funeral Chant - Dawn of Annihailtion | 5 | -- | -- | -- | Black / Death |
Swampbeast - Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads | 5 | ## | -- | -- | Death / Summoning Gone Wrong |
Fulci - Exhumed Information | 5 | ## | -- | -- | Brutal Death / Giallo |
The 4s & 3s
Album | Notes |
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Cult of Eibon | One Of Those Angry Obscure Greek Gods |
Grey Aura | Black? |
Domkraft | Drugs |
Force of Darkness | Black / Thrash At the Speed of Satan |
Dakhma | Zoroastrian Death Music |
Silver Talon | Frank Frazetta Tattoo Parlor |
In Mourning | Melodic Death Monster |
Conjureth | Death / Missile Barrage |
Sxuperion | Thanks To You 3 Plus The Band For Voting |
Caveman Cult | Death And Landmines |
Mystic Storm | Thrashing Banshees |
Sněť | Solo Lobotomy |
Clandestine Blaze | Too Good For Bandcamp Black |
Saidan | Black / horror Movies In The Dark |
Boss Keloid | Progressive Drugs / Beards |
Laang | Atmospheric Anxiety |
Headshrinker | Death / Vertigo |
Gatecreeper | Death Metal One Rep Max |
Grave Miasma | Black / Death / Ghouls |
Whoredom Rife | Black / Rune Knights |
Intestinal Hex | Death / Internal Rupture |
LLNN | Sludge / Im Sorry For Bothering You Ill Be leaving Now |
Blood Red Throne | Tiefling Warlock / Patron: Fiend |
Ceremonial Torture | Best Album Art? |
Every Time I Die | I'm Sure They Are On Metal Archives |
Gosudar | Frozen Death |
Hypocrisy | "Aliens" |
Genocide Pact | Washington DC on Fire |
Kūka'ilimoku | Raw Black / 10 Tapes Available |
Aorlhac | Melodic Black / Elf Necromancer |
Evile | Wait...THAT Evile? |
Aephanemer | If Ghosts Made Operas |
Black Mass | Thrash and Chain Whips |
Wizardthrone | Level 11 Wizard |
Atræ Bilis | Brutal Dæth |
Fuoco Fatuo | Funeral Doom / Glacial Suffering |
Vertebra Atlantis | Weird shit |
Biomorphic Engulfment | If Xenomorphs Were Into Brutal Death |
Decrepisy | Death / Doom / River Sludge |
Ringarë | Trve Pennsylvvanian Black |
Altarage | Inverted Surgery |
Cynic | Neutral Good Androids |
Hippotraktor | Progressive / Brutalist Architecture |
Galneryus | Power / Owns At Least Three Orbs |
Ride for Revenge | Black/ Are You Feeling Okay? |
Sepulcros | Trapped In A Gelatinous Cube |
Tyrann | The Only Album That Has The Right To Have A Boxing Devil |
Vokonis | Late 2000's Mastodon After They Went Into Hiding |
Spelljammer | Pink Floyd With More Orange Amps |
Cryptosis | Why Yes Those Are My PKD Novels |
Sunless | Have You Read House of Leaves Backwards? |
The Temple | Death / Black / Probably Haunted |
Seven Spires | Symphonic / Decorative Swords |
Nervosa | Thrash / Death / Broken Shot Glasses |
Alkerdeel | Black / Doom / Probably Krampus |
Ferriterium | Black / Long Talks About Gnosis |
Vola | Progressive / Cosmic Healing |
Abscession | Death / Corpse Carts |
Significant Point | Speed / Heavy / Cool Fucking Cover |
Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa | Progressive / Black / Sword & Planet |
Plasmodium | I Want To Fall Down Darkened Stairs Black Death |
Der Weg Einer Freiheit | Black / Probably Three Or Four Philosophy Books |
Defacement | Cover Matches Music |
Dauþuz | Black / Folk Medicine With Frogs |
Reveal! | Post Black / Death |
Vulture | Welcome To The Funhouse |
Evil | Band Name: "Evil" Do You Have the Slightest Idea How Little That Narrows It Down? |
Venefixion | Headbanging With Skeletons |
Eisenhand | Fuck It , Its 1982 Again |
Inhuman Condition | I Loved Goosebumps When I Was A Kid |
Apparition | Death / Eternal Nausea |
Black Sites | Playing Traveller with Voivod and Blue Oyster Cult |
Vauruvã | Black / Death By Sun Flare |
Diablo Swing Orchestra | What Future Music Sounds Like In Sci Fi Movies |
Unreqvited | Breakup Gaze |
Stone Healer | Progressive / Black Metal As A Concept |
Seputus | Oh Cool Psychedelic Metal...What The Fuck |
Crescent | Lets Get High And Watch The Mummy |
Dread Sovereign | Doom / Medieval Medicine |
Doctor Smoke | Doom / Occult / Hammer Horror Posters |
Stormruler | Immediately Taken To A Dark Souls Wiki |
Crypta | Thrash / Death By Harpies |
Succumb | Grind / How About We Smother The Listener? |
Creeping Death | This Is An EP...But Okay |
Warmoon Lord | Cool Spiked Gauntlets |
Witch Vomit | Thanks Mods |