TEETH OF THE DIVINE STAFF PICKS FOR 2021!!!!!
Well, another year in the books. Another year of excellent metal and another year scrambling to put together year end lists from the vast amount of quality music released in 2021.
Below is the finely crafted crème de la crème of year end lists from our dedicated staff, who strive to provide to the great daily content here at TeethoftheDivine, and their year end reward is to spout their opinions of what they liked, disliked and anticipate.
As usual feel free to add you own lists or comments and of course browse the site to find reviews of the contained material where we have it. But more importantly lets hope for a better and closer to normal year in 2022.
Kris Allred
Here we are again my friends, at the end of another wild year. What can be said now that hasn’t already been said many times over, not in just this year, but as well as the previous. Instead of giving some rant or spiel about the state of affairs in the world and why I love metal and its cathartic properties, lets just go ahead in jump into the thick of things…Here are fifty albums that did it for me in 2021(top twenty & thirty honorable mentions); be it they were flat-out the most impressive and shining examples of where metal is going, or if they were just simple and/or nostalgic rippers that put a smile on my face. If you want to know any of my additional thoughts on any albums below, feel free to ask, debate, or even yell at me about them. As for 2022, well, lets just try to make it the best that we can as we treat one another the best that we can. Much love and metal to you all!!!
Top Albums of 2021
- FLOTSAM AND JETSAM – Blood in the Water (AFM Records)
- IRON MAIDEN – Senjutsu (Parlophone)
- CANNIBAL CORPSE – Violence Unimagined (Metal Blade Records)
- ASPHYX – Necroceros – (Century Media Records)
- PATHOLOGY – The Everlasting Plague (Nuclear Blast)
- FEAR FACTORY – Aggression Continuum (Nuclear Blast)
- OPHIDIAN I – Desolate (Season of Mist)
- MASTODON – Hushed and Grim (Reprise Records)
- ARCHSPIRE – Bleed the Future (Season of Mist)
- IOTUNN – Access All Worlds (Metal Blade Records)
- INHUMAN CONDITION – Rat°God (Listenable Insanity Records)
- THULCANDRA – A Dying Wish (Naplam Records)
- CYNIC – Ascension Codes (Season of Mist)
- STORMKEEP – Tales of Othertime (Ván Records)
- HANNES GROSSMANN – To Where the Light Retreats (Independent)
- MENTAL CRUELTY – A Hill to Die Upon (Unique Leader)
- ALLUVIAL – Sarcoma (Nuclear Blast)
- 1914 – Where Fear and Weapons Meet (Napalm Records)
- OBSCURA – A Valediction (Nuclear Blast)
- HOODED MENACE – The Tritonus Bell (Season of Mist)
Honorable Mentions
RIVERS OF NIHIL – The Work
CRADLE OF FILTH – Existence is Futile
SARCOUGHAGUS – Delusions of the Sick
BLOOD RED THRONE – Imperial Congregation
ABORTED – Maniacult
FIRST FRAGMENT – Gloire Éternelle
COGNITIVE – Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction
PUTREVORE – Miasmal Mostrosity
XAEL – Bloodtide Rising
PESTILENCE – Exitium
AT THE GATES – The Nightmare of Being
KHEMMIS – Deceiver
HYPOCRISY – Worship
EXODUS – Persona Non Grata
MASSACRE – Resurgence
CARCASS – Torn Arteries
HELLOWEEN – Helloween
SOLSTICE – Casting the Die
THE CROWN – Royal Destroyer
FROZEN SOUL – Crypt of Ice
BE´LAKOR – Coherence
TRIVIUM – In the Court of the Dragon
K.K.’s PRIEST – Sermons of the Sinner
TRIBULATION – Where the Bloom Becomes Sound
DREAM THEATER – A View from the Top of the World
PROSCRIPTOR McGOVERN’S APSU – Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsu
CRYPT CRAWLER – Future Usurper
PYREXIA – Gravitas Maximus
EXANIMATVM – Sollvm Ipsa Mor
PORTRAIT – At One with None
…okay, I decided to sneak in a top three EP’s of the year as well, aleast from the smll amount I actually heard…
- MALIGNANCY – Malignant Future/Epilogue (Sevared Records)
- WINTER NIGHTS – Sky Burial (Independent)
- ENSLAVED – Caravans to the Outer World (Nuclear Blast)
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