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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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.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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2021 albums that I enjoyed so far, a lot more coming, obviously a work in progress

1.Wheel - Resident Human

2.Needlepoint - Walking up That Valley

3.Sur Austru - Obârşie

4.Dordeduh - Har

5.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

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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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Another year, another list. Huh time flies. First 10 in order I think was best of the best. Last 10 worst of the worst. Rest is in a order as I think they fits (based on todays perspective) , maybe december albums are higher as januari ones and also some middle albums might be 2-3 places higher, lover.
PS If there are duplications, let me know.

1.Thyrathen - ThanatOpsis

2.Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void

3.Cult Of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion

4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner

5.Icon Of Sin - Icon Of Sin

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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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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.Aborted - ManiaCult

2.Asphyx - Necroceros

3.At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being

4.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

5.Carcass - Torn Arteries

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You already know what to expect from these kinds of lists, so let's get straight to the point.

The statistics for this year's list:

- 268 albums
- Total points given: 2007,4
- Average Score: 7,49/10

- Albums with a score of 7 or above: 62,80%
- Albums with a score of 8 or above: 30,60%
- Albums with a score of 9 or above: 1,12%

1.Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within Live

2.Decimals - Symmetry

3.Hwaino - We Lost Another Moon

4.In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil

5.First Nation - Baraka

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My List of the releases made during 2021. Score based on the excel sheet i've made https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hk_3gkpCfeKtdZNus_z3sxg-U8XJ_MqklfC8tbealaE/edit?usp=sharing

1.Decline Of The I - Johannes

2.Vokonis - Odyssey

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

4.Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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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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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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1.Soen - Imperial

2.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

3.Eclipse - Wired

4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner

5.Immortal Guardian - Psychosomatic

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Good morrow
This is Prnzo
this list is probably for...
idk, the more adventurous...
jack-of-all-trades listener
lots of apples/oranges here
hopefully this top list helps
at least one MS'er
and if not...
there's always next yr
...unless there's not

update: this list still reflected just releases from earlier in the year - I keep updating my list offline... but I'm never happy with some of the configuration/arrangement (due mostly to indecision or losing track of even a very good release here n there)

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

2.Dordeduh - Har

3.Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI)

4.The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls

5.Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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