Albums I Missed In 2021
Starting things off by taking a look back at the previous year and some of the fantastic music that somehow slipped past me at the time...
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Dec 31, 2021
Top Albums of 2021
1). Vildhjarta - "måsstaden under vatten" : Vildhjarta have provided the perfect soundtrack to my experience of the last 12 months or so....
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Dec 31, 2021
Honourable Mentions of 2021
Given the various lockdowns and the live sector of the music industry staying entirely dormant for most of the year and the year before;...
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Dec 30, 2021
Top EP's of 2021
1). Cult of Luna - "The Raging River" : A continuation of "A Dawn To Fear" 's slow-burning bleakness; the atmosphere of this could-be...
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Dec 29, 2021
Top Progressive Metal Albums of 2021
1). Between The Buried And Me - "Colors II" : BTBAM had some huge shoes to fill with a title like that and not only did they succeed, but...
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Dec 29, 2021
Top Mathcore Albums of 2021
1). Frontierer - "Oxidized" : It's been thrown around a lot ever since the album came out, but it truly is the most aggressive,...
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Dec 28, 2021
Top Metalcore Albums of 2021
1). Sentinels - "Collapse By Design" : This album pretty much encapsulates everything I enjoy the most in progressive "core" music. It's...
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Dec 27, 2021
Top Hardcore Albums of 2021
To be honest, I didn't really listen to that many full-on hxc records this year or most of them were either mixed with other sub-genres...
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Dec 26, 2021
Top Post-Metal Albums of 2021
1). LLNN - "Unmaker" : Yeah, this thing could crush asteroids. By far the heaviest post-metal record I've heard in a good while;...
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Dec 25, 2021
Top Post-Rock Albums of 2021
1). secret gardens - "Tundra" : Perhaps the most intimate and personal post-rock record I've ever listened to; "Tundra" can feel as...
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Dec 23, 2021
Top Death Metal / Deathcore Albums of 2021
1). Humanity's Last Breath - "Välde" : As majestic as it is crushing, HLB have pushed their sound to new heights with this cinematic and...
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Dec 22, 2021
Top Experimental Albums of 2021
1). Fawn Limbs - "Darwin Falls" : Casting aside any limitations, far away from genre pigeonholing; the artistical vision of Fawn Limbs...
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Dec 22, 2021
Top Black Metal Albums of 2021
I know, I know; pretty much all of these are more black metal adjacent than full-on trve black metal but it is what it is folks : 1). MØL...
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Dec 21, 2021
Top Electronic Albums of 2021
1). Iglooghost - "Lei Line Eon" : Whimsical shape-shifting soundscapes drag you into a world all of its own where Iglooghost makes the...
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Dec 21, 2021
Top "soft" Albums of 2021
A lil category for albums that didn't really fit into any of the others but all shared one thing : their appeasing, calming and...
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Dec 20, 2021
Albums That Underwhelmed / Disappointed in 2021
So it begins... The end-of-year list-posting. I'll preface this post by saying that I do not consider these albums as "bad". Who am I to...
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