Here are my picks for 2021.

 

Top Ten Albums of the Year:

 

10) Carcass, Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast)

Key Track: “Kelly’s Meat Emporium”

 

 

 

 

 

09) The Bronx, VI (Cooking Vinyl)

Key Track: “Breaking News”

 

 

 

 

 

08) Evile, Hell Unleashed (Napalm Records)

Key Track: “Disorder”

 

 

 

 

07) Gojira, Fortitude (Roadrunner)

Key Track: “Another World”

 

 

 

 

06) Iron Maiden, Senjutsu (Sanctuary)

Key Track: “Stratego”

 

 

 

 

05) At The Gates, The Nightmare of Being (Century Media)

Key Track: “The Abstract Enthroned” 

 

 

 

 

04) Ministry, Moral Hygiene (Nuclear Blast)

Key Track: “Sabotage Is Sex” 

 

 

 

 

03) All Hail The Yeti, Within the Hollow Earth (Minus Head Records)

Key Track: “Headless Valley”

 

 

 

 

02) Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined (Metal Blade)

Key Track: “Surround, Kill, Devour”

 

 

 

 

01) Exodus, Persona Non Grata (Nuclear Blast)

Key Track: “The Beatings Will Continue”

 

Tour of the Year:
“Metal Tour of the Year”
Megadeth, Lamb of God, Trivium, Hatebreed

 

Singles:
Exodus – “The Beatings Will Continue”
The Acid Helps – “Sink Pisser”
The Acid Helps – “This Thing Will Not Die”
Man The Mute – “Give Em Hell”