Stheno - Wardance

 

Genre: Grindcore/Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2021

1. Bestial Battalion
2. RPG
3. Deadly Camouflage
4. Fire!
5. Snake Eater
6. Zulu Time
7. Snafu (This Time... We Die!!)
8. Dishonored Bodybag
9. Military Discharge
10. Bite The Bullet
11. Bellum Internecinum

2nd album by Stheno, 5 years after their last one. This time, behind the mic we find Christian Chako (Keitzer, Mörser). This addition works like a catalytic factor on the new album. Their grindcore is ultra-violent, fast, furious and blended so well and unholy with black metal that leaves no room for saying much. 

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Φορμόλη - Surrendered To Doom

 

Genre: D-Beat/Crust/Grindcore
Country: Greece
Year: 2021

1. Intro
2. No Life Remains
3. Condemned To Suffer
4. Surrendered To Doom
5. Αδιέξοδο
6. Η Ανάσα Στον Ώμο Σου
7. Μανούρα
8. Hypocrites
9. Abomination

Debut album by Φορμόλη. An entertaining and promising release by a new crust/grind group. In their first recording, they deliver 9 tracks of D-beat driven crust blended with grindcore.

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Rudimentary Peni - Great War

 

Genre: Punk/Hardcore
Country: England
Year: 2021

1. Anthem For Doomed Youth
2. Path Of Glory
3. Crimson Sun
4. Mental Cases
5. Asleep
6. Blood For Seed
7. Soldier’s Dream
8. Strange Meeting
9. Witness
10. The Old Lie

4th album by Rudimentary Peni, that came out of nowhere 26 years after their last one. The group emerges from the murk to strike a deft blow, before retreating back into the blackness without any explanation. It’s heartening to know that the band is still around, at least in some sort, and they are still making music that is unique. 

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Exodus - Persona Non Grata

 

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Persona Non Grata
2. R.E.M.F.
3. Slipping Into Madness
4. Elitist
5. Prescribing Horror
6. The Beatings Will Continue (Until Morale Improves)
7. The Years Of Death And Dying
8. Clickbait
9. Cosa Del Pantano
10. Lunatic-Liar-Lord
11. The Fires Of Division
12. Antiseed

12th album by Exodus, 7 years after their last one. 'Persona Non Grata' is better than 'Blood In, Blood Out'. It is an inseparable set of impulse thrash metal. Exodus came back emphatically and the new album leaves no room for doubt.

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Nighthawks - Night Of The Witch

 

Genre: Speed/Thrash
Country: Greece
Year: 2019

1. Full Moon
2. Wolfchild
3. Mind Masters
4. Nighthawks
5. The Ritual
6. Night Of The Witch
7. Skulls And Blades
8. Seas Of Fate
9. Revenge Of The Wolves
10. 6th Of June 6 AM
11. Life And Death Of Damien Thorn

Debut album by Nighthawks. Flirting with US thrash and Teutonic speed Nighthawks deliver a killer album based on sharp riffs, hooky harmonies and catchy choruses. If you are a fan of Agent Steel, Exciter, Stormwitch, early Running Wild, Overkill and Helstar, you will find a crazy and charming album to invest your money.

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Belore - Artefacts

Genre: Atm.Black
Country: France
Year: 2021

1. Tale Of A Knight
2. Artefacts Of Power
3. The Fall Of Endeor
4. Moonstone
5. A New King For Therallas
6. Glorious Journey

2nd album by Belore. 6 long songs take the listener down awe-inspiring pathways. The keys and symphonic instrumentation carry each track, but not without the infusion of mid-paced black metal. Tremolo-picked guitars appear throughout tracks add an icy sheen to each track. Vocals are a cross between distant shrieks and heroic clean voices. 

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Hypocrisy - Worship

 

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2021

1. Worship
2. Chemical Whore
3. Greedy Bastards
4. Dead World
5. We're The Walking Dead
6. Brotherhood Of The Serpent
7. Children Of The Gray
8. Another Day
9. They Will Arrive
10. Bug In The Net
11. Gods Of The Underground

12th album by Hypocrisy, 8 years after their last one. The whole album in its entirety continues rather safe based on Tägtgren’s deep growls and melodic singing, the thick guitars, the discrete but also epic keyboards, the powerful drums and clean production with many compositions following an old school feeling and motif with blasting songs blended with mid tempo tracks.

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Massacre - Resurgence

 

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Eldritch Prophecy
2. Ruins Of R'Lyeh
3. Innsmouth Strain
4. Whisperer In Darkness
5. Book Of The Dead
6. Into The Far-Off Void
7. Servants Of Discord
8. Fate Of The Elder Gods
9. Spawn Of The Succubus
10. Return Of The Corpse Grinder

4th album by Massacre. Next to Kam Lee and Michael Borders we find Scott Fairfax (Memoriam, etc.), Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, etc.), Brynjar Helgetun (Crypticus, Gods Forsaken, etc.) and Jonny Pettersson (Heads For The Dead, etc.). The album is a violent lesson of old-school death metal, an album of extreme quality.

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Destructo - Demonic Possession

Genre: Black/Thrash
Country: Holland
Year: 2021

1. Succubus
2. Black Mark
3. In Service Of No One
4. Necromancy
5. Satan's Hammer
6. Demonic Possession
7. Lycanthro Kommando
8. Total Death
9. I, Witchfukker
10. Bloodthirst

Debut album by Destructo, a group consisting of Nuclear Devastation and Dödsrit members J.J. Soulcrusher and G.G. Motörphallus. This is true extreme metal in every sense of the term, from an unapologetic old school sound to the venomous vocals and undeniably vitriolic instruments, through to a minimalist production. 

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Bastard - Rotten Blood

 

Genre: Black/Speed/Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Whipstrike
2. Hellfire & Steel
3. The Possession
4. Leather-Bound Book Of Lies
5. Crescent Horn
6. The Protector
7. Under The Tattered Banners (Of Rock N Roll)
8. Rotten Blood
9. Spellbound
10. Bewitched

2nd album by Bastard, 6 years after their last one. Here we find fast, dirty and highly energetic blackened speed/thrash. Catchy, entertaining with old-school attitude and rock'n'roll vibes. 

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Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû - Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû

 

Genre: Black/Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. Amenta: Accelerando: Azyn Including Hierophantasmal Expounder
2. Esoterically Excoriating The Exoteric
3. Quasaric Pestilence
4. Mirroracles
5. In-Betweeness Gateway Commuters
6. Jupiter In Capricornus
7. Dedicated To Thoth, But Azathoth Wasn’t Listening A Necroloquy)
8. Caliginous Whorl
9. The Coagulating Respite
10. Prana: Therion: Akasha
11. Tantrums Of Azag-Kkû
12. Every Watchtower Within Is The Axis Of A Watchtower Without Including Totemic Thresholds

Debut album by Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû. Musically and production wise this record mostly resembles the last outing of Absu from 2011 titled 'Abzu', fusing teutonic thrash, black, death and classic heavy metal, along with Proscriptor’s love of 60s psychedelia and 70s progressive rock and jazz fusion.

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Thulcandra - A Dying Wish

 

Genre: Black
Country: Germany
Year: 2021

1. Funeral Pyre
2. Scarred Grandeur
3. Orchard Of Grievance
4. In Vain
5. Nocturnal Heresy
6. The Slivering Silver
7. In Bleak Misery
8. A Shining Abyss
9. Devouring Darkness
10. A Dying Wish

4th album by Thulcandra, 6 years after their last one. The group continues drawing its sounds from the legendary early '90s Swedish scene summoning up a blistering mix of black metal and death metal groups like Dissection, Sacramentum, Unanimated and Necrophobic. 

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Phrenelith - Chimaera

 

Genre: Death
Country: Denmark
Year: 2021

1. Awakening Titans
2. Chimaerian Offspring - Part 1
3. Phlegethon
4. Gorgonhead
5. Kykytos
6. Χίμαιρα
7. Chimaerian Offspring - Part 2 

2nd album by Phrenelith. They play a constantly moving brand of brutal death metal that sacrifices nothing for anything. They use mid-tempo riffs to give their sound weight, and use black-metal-esque tremolo to keep the mind occupied. It is a strong album, successfully combining funereal brutality with macabre atmosphere.

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Vreid - Wild North West

 

Genre: Black
Country: Norway
Year: 2021

1. Wild North West
2. Wolves At Sea
3. The Morning Red
4. Shadows Of Aurora
5. Spikes Of God
6. Dazed And Reduced
7. Into The Mountains
8. Shadowland

9th album by Vreid. It’s fun to hear it, not at all boring, with edgy tunes flirting with thrash in a black'n'roll motive with some great tremolo picked riffs, excellent leads and a plethora of melodies. 

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KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner

 

Genre: Heavy
Country: England
Year: 2021

1. Incarnation
2. Hellfire Thunderbolt
3. Sermons Of The Sinner
4. Sacerdote y Diablo
5. Raise Your Fists
6. Brothers Of The Road
7. Metal Through And Through
8. Wild And Free
9. Hail For The Priest
10. Return Of The Sentinel

Debut album by KK's Priest, the group of ex-Judas Priest founding member K.K. Downing. Next to him we find Tim Owens (ex-Judas Priest, The Three Tremors, etc.), A.J. Mills (Hostile), Tony Newton and Sean Elg (Cage, etc.). The album has an aggressive, infectious energy, in part due to spirited performances by everyone involved, making it a welcome return for Downing. As expected, his new album is fully interconnected with the early Judas Priest style, rescuing many 80s characteristics on this new material.

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Stormkeep - Tales Of Othertime

 

Genre: Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2021

1. The Seer
2. The Citadel
3. A Journey Through Storms
4. The Serpent's Stone
5. An Ode To Dragons
6. Eternal Majesty Manifest

Debut album by Stormkeep. They work with a base of '90s symphonic black metal like early Old Man’s Child or Dimmu Borgir with clear dungeon synth influences that’d bring Summoning to mind. A majestic and haunting opus of black metal magnificence that will take you to an ancient land where adventure and sorcery are always present. Heroic, bold, devastating and brutally intense.

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Funeral Mist - Deiform

 

Genre: Black
Country: Sweden
Year: 2021

1. Twilight Of The Flesh
2. Apokalyptikon
3. In Here
4. Children Of The Urn
5. Hooks Of Hunger
6. Deiform
7. Into Ashes

4th album by Funeral Mist. Most of the album carry the furious tremolo riffs the project has always been known for. The production is excellent, the tracks are hauntingly dark yet beautiful and glitter like a dark gem in moonlight. A pure and uncompromising album where every track excels both individually and as being part of the album.

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Top Albums of 2021

Thrash:

1. Enforced - Kill Grid

2. Demoniac - So It Goes

3. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm

4. Nocturnal - Serpent Death

5. Artillery - X

6. Paranorm - Empyrean 

Death:

1. Unleashed - No Sign Of Life

2. Archspire - Bleed The Future

3. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

4. Baest - Necro Sapiens

5. Carcass - Torn Arteries 

6. At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being

Black:

1. Paysage d'Hiver - Geister

2. Mystras - Empires Vanquished And Dismantled

3. Funeral Mist - Deiform

4. Mork - Katedralen

5. Dødsferd - Suicide And The Rest Of Your Kind Will Follow part II

6. 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

Viking/Pagan/Folk:

1. Einherjer - North Star

2. Thyrfing - Vanagandr 

3. Helheim - WoduridaR

4. Korpiklaani - Jylhä

5. Bornholm - Apotheosis

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:

1. Psychopharmaka - Spastic Hardcore Noise 

2. Stheno - Wardance

3. Zvarna - Αδιάγνωστο Ψυχεδελικό

4. Lock Up - The Dregs Of Hades

5. Downwinder - Downwinder

6. Aborted - Maniacult

Heavy/Power/Speed:

1. Ice War - Sacred Land

2. Tower - Shock To The System

3. Eternity's End - Embers Of War

4. Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void

5. Helloween - Helloween

6. Warrior Path - The Mad King

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:

1. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bllodmoon:I 

2. Wheel - Preserved In Time

3. Lake Of Tears - Ominous