1.Orden Ogan - Final Days

2.Blaze Bayley - War Within Me

3.Running Wild - Blood On Blood

4.Bloodbound - Creatures Of The Dark Realm

5.Blazon Stone - Damnation

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1.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

2.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

3.Greylotus - Dawnfall

4.John Petrucci - An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess [Collaboration]

5.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

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With my best of 2022 coming soon, I thought It would be a good idea to do one for last year. It won't be that accurate since I didn't pay that much attention to new releases in 2021. But I still found enough music to make a top 50 list for the year. Don't forget that this list is completely subjective so please feel free to show your favourites in the comments

1.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

2.Simulacrum - Genesis

3.Turbulence - Frontal

4.Obscura - A Valediction

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

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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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1.Soen - Imperial

2.Volbeat - Servant Of The Mind

3.Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile

4.Witherfall - The Curse Of Autumn

5.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

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1.Be'lakor - Coherence

2.Opera Diabolicus - Death On A Pale Horse

3.Cynic - Ascension Codes

4.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

5.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

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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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1.Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

2.Helloween - Helloween

3.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

4.Mastodon - Hushed And Grim

5.Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water

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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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Albums I've listened to released between January - March

1.Soen - Imperial

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

4.Cult Of Luna - The Raging River

5.Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void

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After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who TF knows when we might return to a semblance of normality. Until then, I'll be trying to make sure that nothing noteworthy passes my radar.

1.Vulgaris - Asundre

2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

3.Heliocentric - Ishmael

4.Decline Of The I - Johannes

5.Dordeduh - Har

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1.Thurnin - Menhir

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Mӕre

3.Ablaze My Sorrow - Among Ashes And Monoliths

4.Lake Of Tears - Ominous

5.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

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2021 Playlist

1.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

2.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen

3.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

4.Wheel - Resident Human

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

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1.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

2.Therion - Leviathan

3.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

4.Soen - Imperial

5.Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

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