Best of 2021 season is in full swing around the metal world and we’ll be joining soon enough. Y’all keep doing y’all with slinging mud over who chose what and why or this album is much better than that album or this thing doesn’t even deserve it or this ain’t even a metal list, and so on and so forth. BUT, keep in mind no list is the end all be all and each serves as THAT person’s or THAT site’s favorites. Rock on anyway though, it makes it fun seeing all the vitriol but most of all it’s refreshing to see the dedication to everyone’s favorites. Anyway, we still have a couple weeks of new metal so do continue to pay attention especially seeing as this week we’ve got some excellent death metal from both Malignant Altar and Pyrexia, an enthralling combo of black and death metal from Vahrzaw, a gut punch black metal offering from Diablation, and many more hanging out just below these four. Go get some and scream to the highest peaks what your favorites are, word of mouth is a strong thing.
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Malignant Altar – Realms of Exquisite Morbidity (Dark Descent) – death metal
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Pyrexia – Gravitas Maximus (Unique Leader) – death metal
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Vahrzaw – The Trembling Voices of the Conquered Men (Transcending Obscurity) – black / death
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Diablation – Allégeance (Antiq) – black metal
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Also on tap:
Anatomy of Habit – Even If It Takes a Lifetime (Independent) – post-punk / doom
Andrew Lee – Heavy Metal Shrapnel (Nameless Grave) – metal
Black Cilice – Tomb Emanations, 7″ EP (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Cadaveric Fumes – Echoing Chamber of Soul (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Carved In Stone – Wafts of Mist & The Forgotten Belief (Schwarzdom Production) – vikings
Crowen – Prophecy (Inverse Records) – folk / melodic death metal
Cruciatus Infernalis – Untot (Kvlt und Kaos) – black / death
Dark Sky Burial – Omnis Cum In Tenebris Praesertim Vita Laboret (Extrinsic Recordings) – metal
Dead – You’ll Never Know Pleasure…, 25th Anniversary Issue (Xenocorp Kvlt Series) – grind
Detest – We Will Get What We Deserve (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal
Devil Cross – This Mortal Coil (Fighter) – heavy metal
Dinnamarque – The Darkeside of Human Nature (Independent) – metal
Djinn-Ghül – Mechalith (Vicious Instinct) – industrial death metal
Dperd – Monsters (My Kingdom Music) – darkwave
Ethereal Shroud – Trisagion (Independent) – atmospheric black metal
Final Coil – Somnambulant II (WormHoleDeath) – post-rock
Funeral – Praesentialis in Aeternus (Season of Mist) – doom metal
Furze – Black Psych Tormentor (Independent) – black metal
Gods of Decay – Collective Psychosis (Sliptrick) – goth
Gore Brigade – S/T, EP (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal
Hammerdrone – A Trinity of Rage, EP (Independent) – metal
HellgardeN – Rise of the Beast (Brutal Records) – symphonic black metal
Hogtooth – You Can’t Handle the Tooth, EP (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Inherits the Void – Monolith of Light (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
Intricated – Apocalyptic Metamorphosis (Comatose) – brutal death metal
Jackal’s Backbone – Red Mist Descending (Independent) – thrash
Joan Avant – Dies Irae (Red Masque) – goth
Lhaäd – Below (Babylon Doom Cult Records / Extraconscious Records / Fólkvangr Records) – industrial / ambient / black metal
Lifelost – Punitive Damnation (Onism Productions) – black metal
Madmess – Rebirth (Hassle) – psych rock
Malady – Ainavihantaa (Svart) – prog rock
Mordom – Cry of the Dying World (Transylvanian Recordings) – death / doom
Orsak:Oslo – Skimmer / Vemod (Kapitän Platte) – scandipsych
Otargos – Fleshborer Soulflayer (Xenocorp) – black / death
Perseide – The Only Thing (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Pornographic Sunset – Gold; Flesh; Dirt (Independent) – prog rock
Phrenelith – Chimaera (Nuclear Winter) – death metal
Psilocybe Larvae – Where Silence Dwells (Fono Ltd. / Red Rivet) – death / doom
Putrid Offal – Premature Necropsy: the Carnage Continues (Xenocorp) – death metal
Rat King – Santa Hipocresia (Within The Mind) – deathgrind
Restless Spirit – Blood of the Old Gods (Lifesblood) – stoner doom
Reveal! – Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice) – metal
Rökkr – S/T (Chaos) – metal
Rope Sect – Proskynesis, 10″ (Iron Bonehead) – dark
Sgàile – Ideals & Morality (Avantgarde Music) – prog
Sinful Ways – Darkest Days, EP (Independent) – metal
Stabbing – Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught (Comatose) – brutal death metal
Superlynx – Solstice, EP (Dark Essence) – rock
Thalarion – Dying On the Scorched Plains (UPRISING!) – atmospheric death / doom
The Drippers – Scandinavian Thunder (The Sign) – rock
Thirty Fates – Circus Black (Rockshots Records) – heavy metal
Wolf – Mal Camino (WormHoleDeath) – rock
– Josh