Rolling 2021 Metal Thread

(ah using the wrong rolling Metal thread it seems!)

I just received last year's Panopticon album finally - they didn't do a standalone CD release this time, instead including it in with the vinyl, and I slept on the first pressing that immediately sold out. The second pressing finally made it into my grubby hands which means I have officially purchased every 2021 release I wanted on CD, LP, Tape, or Digital Download if all else failed.

As such, here's my list. It's late to the game but that's Panopticon's fault as far as I am concerned.

My Favorite 2021 Metal(lic) Albums

Aduanten - Sullen Cadence
Alda - A Distant Fire
Animal Schoolbus - Going To Grammy's House!? 2021 Remix
Artillery - X
Big|Brave - Vital
Black Mass - Feast at the Forbidden Tree
Blasphemous Creation - Forsaken Dynasty
Bloody Hammers - Songs of Unspeakable Terror
The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See
The Body & Big|Brave - Leaving None But Small Birds
Bone Tower - We All Will Die Someday
Bongzilla - Weedsconsin
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Cirith Ungol - Half Past Human [EP]
Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire (40th Anniversary Edition)
Cosmic Burial - …To The Past
Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile
Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
The Crown - Royal Destroyer
Darkthrone - Eternal Hails…
Dead Neanderthals - Rat Licker
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Deceased - Thrash Times At Ridgemont High
Dola - Czasy
Dordeduh - Har
Dread Sovereign - Alchemical Warfare
Dusk in Silence - Beneath the Great Sky of Solitude
Enforced - Kill Grid
Evile - Hell Unleashed
Fiat Nox - In Contemptuous Defiance
The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide
Fluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking
Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions
Gaunt Emperor - Femur
Graveyard Shifters - Head Turns First, Eyes Follow...
Haunt - Beautiful Distraction
Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris
The HIRS Collective - The Third 100 Songs
Hot Breath - Rubbery Lips
Iceburn - Asclepius
Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Khemmis - Deceiver
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Knoll - Interstice
Korpiklaani - Jylhä
Krallice - Demonic Wealth
Lingua Ignota - Agnus Dei [EP]
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
Lucifer - IV
Lucifuge - Infernal Power
Lys - Silent Woods
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Melvins - Working With God
Mesarthim - Vacuum Solution [EP]
Mesarthim - CLG J02182–05102
Monster Magnet - A Better Dystopia
Mourners - Act I: Tragedies
Necromantical Invocation - Dogme el Rituel de la Haute Magie
Negură Bunget - Zău
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War
Panopticon - …And Again Into the Light
Pantheist - Closer to God
Paysage d'Hiver - Geister
The Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And Roll
Pyrexia - Gravitas Maximus
Red Fang - Arrows
The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Sentinel Beast - Depths Of Death (Reissue)
S.H.I. - 4 死 Death
Skepticism - Companion
Sleep - The Clarity [12"]
Spectral Wound - A Diabolical Thirst
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell
Stone Deaf - Killers
Sur Austru - Obârșie
Throat - Smile Less
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
Thyrfing - Vanagandr
Towards Atlantis Lights - When the Ashes Devoured the Sun
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Wardruna - Kvitravn
Warish - Next to Pay
White Ward - Debemur Morti [EP]
Windfaerer - Breaths Of Elder Dawns
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
Youth Code / King Yosef - A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of Depression
V/A (Sisters of Mercy Tribute) - Black Waves Of Adrenochrome

No Meshuggah? I think the new one is great! Agree with the criticisms above that they aren't reinventing the wheel at this point, but I feel they've earned the right to simply skate along on the wheel they've already invented. They've simply honed and refined over time their groovy battering ram vibe, and sound as immaculate and uncompromising as ever. I dunno, I can never have too much of that sound.

This ended up being my top 5:

Asphyxiate - Altar of Decomposed
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
Sněť - Mokvání v okovech
Temperance - Diamanti
Worm - Foreverglade

Dear anybody else who likes the school of black-ish metal-ish that sounds like the internal monologue of the last demon left in Hell after everybody else has moved away, check out the new Reverorum ib Malacht.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3pDeSwiNodraaR3tzEtbWV?si=skJrovsKSq661V6on4yYkQ