Year-End Lists

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2021

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1. Carcass
   Torn Arteries
2. Khemmis
   Deceiver
3. Tribulation
   Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
4. Apparition
   Feel
5. Panopticon
   ...And Again Into The Light
6. Hooded Menace
   The Tritonus Bell
7. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe
   Bloodmoon: I
8. Lamp Of Murmuur
   Submission And Slavery
9. Iron Maiden
   Senjutsu
10. Wolves in the Throne Room
    Primordial Arcana
11. Fucked Up
    Year of the Horse
12. Skepticism
    Companion
13. The Silver
    Ward of Roses
14. Lingua Ignota
    Sinner Get Ready
15. Amenra
    De Doorn
16. Cerebral Rot
    Excretion of Mortality
17. Full of Hell
    Garden of Burning Apparitions
18. Unto Others
    Strength
19. Worm
    Foreverglade
20. Cannibal Corpse
    Violence Unimagined
21. Gatecreeper
    An Unexpected Reality
22. Genghis Tron
    Dream Weapon
23. Stormkeep
    Tales Of Othertime
24. Rudimentary Peni
    Great War
25. Deafheaven
    Infinite Granite
26. Craven Idol
    Forked Tongues
27. Hulder
    Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry
28. Exodus
    Persona Non Grata
29. Dungeon Serpent
    World of Sorrows
30. Archspire
    Bleed the Future
31. Knoll
    Interstice
32. Enforced
    Kill Grid
33. The Ruins Of Beverast
    The Thule Grimoires
34. Spectral Wound
    A Diabolic Thirst
35. Silver Talon
    Decadence and Decay
36. Mare Cognitum
    Solar Paroxysm
37. Frozen Soul
    Crypt Of Ice
38. Body Void
    Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth
39. Darkthrone
    Eternal Hails......
40. Rivers of Nihil
    The Work