Top Albums of 2021
Top/Favorite 100 Of The Year list. Some killer NZ releases from Glassblower, Scorn Of Creation, The Temple, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Plague Of The Fallen, Bridge Burner among a raft of blackened death, funeral doom, spots of industrial and other whims of fancy that piqued my interest this year.
So many releases I've missed or not caught as well.
- Aborted - ManiaCult
- Acolyte - Entropy
- Anette Olzen - Strong
- Angelus Apatrida - Angelus Apatrida
Aphonic Threnody - The All Consuming Void
Between The Buriesd and Me - Colors II
- Big Big Train - Common Ground
- Blindfolded And Led To The Woods - Nightmare Withdrawls
- Blue Stahli - Obsidian
Born of Osiris - Angel or Alien
Boss Keloid - Family The Smiling Thrush
- Bridge Burner - Disempath
- Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
- Carcass - Torn Arteries
Chez Kane - Chez Kane
Cralde of Filth - Existence is Futile
- Crimson Dimension - Crimson Dimension
- Cynic - Ascension Codes
- Demon Hunter - Songs of Death and Resurrection
- Devil Electric - Godess -
- Dobbeltgjenger - Smooth Failing
- Dordeduh - Har
- Dream Theater - A View From The Top
- Doug Pinnick - Joy Bomb
Dvne - Etemen AEnka
Edu Falaschi - Vera Cruz
- Epica - Omega
- Ereb Altor - Eldens Boning
- Everygrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
Exodus - Persona Non Grata
Frost* - Day And Age
- Funeral - Praesentialis Aeternum
- Ghostheard Nebula - Chrysalis
- Glassblower - Younger Than Old Money
Gojira - Fortidude
Gosudar - Morbig Despotic Ritual
- Hammer King - Hammer King
- Hannes Grossman - To Where the Light Retreats
- Helloween- Helloween
Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
Ingorlius - We Will Ride
- Iotunn - Access All Worlds
- Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
- Jarun - Rok Spokojnego Slońca
Jinger - Wallflowers
Lament Christ - The Agonic Fall of Mourners
- Leprous - Aphelion
- Liquid Tensenion Experiment - LTE3
- Mastord - To Whom Bow Even The Trees
- Melua - Illusions
- Michal Lapaj - Are You There
- Mindpatrol - Ikaria
- Ministry - Moral Hygiene
- Moonspell - Hermitage
Musk Ox - Inheritance
Myles Kennedy - The Ides of March
- Necronautical - Slain In The Spirit
- Netherbird - Arete
- Nihilanth - Graceless Planet
Obscura - A Valediction
Olde - Pilgrimage
- Opera Diabolicus - Death On A Pale Horse
- Panopticon - ...and again into the light
- Paul Gilbert - Werewolves of Portland
Phlebotomized - Pain, Resistance, Suffering
Plague of the Fallen - Bleeding and Vehement
- Poverty's No Crime - A Secret to Hide
- Powerwolf - Call Of The Wild
- Présages - Pleurs
Prince - Welcome 2 America
Rob Zombie - The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy
- Scorn of Creation - Annihilation Cult
- Silver Talon - Decadence and Decay
- Skepticism - Companion
SKOLD vs KMFDM - Dies Irae
skyeye - Soldiers of Light
- Soen - Imperial
- Spectral Lore - Ετερόφωτος
- Spelljammer - Abyssal Trip
Spire - Temple of Khronos
Stortregn - Impermanence
- Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever
- Sunbomb - Evil And Devine
- Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
The Temple - Temple
The Neal Morse Band - Innocence & Danger
- Therion - Leviathan
- Todd La Torre - Rejoice In The Suffering
- Todomal - Ultracrepidarian
Tori Amos - Ocean to Ocean
Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
- Typhonian - Ths Cosmic Pendulum of Time
- Violet Cold - Empire Of Love
- VOLA - Witness
Voodoo Circles - Locked & Loaded
Wheel - Preserved In Time
- White Stones - Dancing Into Oblivion
- White Void - Anti
- Witchcryer - When Their Gods Come For y ou
- Witherfall - The Other Side of Fear
