The year-end lists are beginning to surface as Decibel Magazine has shared its Top 40 albums of 2021. Whether the pandemic has inspired many to write new music, this year particularly has shown a plethora of fantastic new records out that will inevitably make another diverse set of year-end lists.
40) Rivers Of Nihil, The Work
39) Darkthrone, Eternal Hails……
38) Body Void, Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
37) Frozen Soul, Crypt Of Ice
36) Mare Cognitum, Solar Paroxysm
35) Silver Talon, Decadence And Decay
34) Spectral Wound, A Diabolic Thirst
33) The Ruins Of Beverast, The Thule Grimoires
32) Enforced, Kill Grid
31) Knoll, Interstice
30) Archspire, Bleed The Future
29) Dungeon Serpent, World Of Sorrows
28) Exodus, Persona Non Grata
27) Hulder, Godslastering Hymns Of A Forlorn Peasantry
26) Craven Idol, Forked Tongues
25) Deafheaven, Infinite Granite
24) Rudimentary Peni, The Great War
23) Stormkeep, Tales Of Othertime
22) Genghis Tron, Dream Weapon
21) Gatecreeper, An Unexpected Reality
20) Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined
19) Worm, Foreverglade
18) Unto Others, Strength
17) Full Of Hell, Garden Of Burning Apparitions
16) Cerebral Rot, Excretion Of Mortality
15) Amenra, De doorn
14) Lingua Ignota, Sinner Get Ready
13) The Silver, Ward of Roses
12) Skepticism, Companion
11) Fucked Up, Year Of The Horse
10) Wolves In The Throne Room, Primordial Arcana
09) Iron Maiden, Senjutsu
08) Lamp Of Murmuur, Submission And Slavery
07) Converge, Bloodmoon: I
06) Hooded Menace, The Tritonus Bell
05) Panopticon, …And Again Into The Light
04) Apparition, Feel
03) Tribulation, Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
02) Khemmis, Deceiver
01) Carcass, Torn Arteries
