Best of 2021- (feat DJ Anubis & DJ Neko) Episode #147

In this episode Neko and I debut our best of 2021 metal and rock albums of the year. We also talk a little about some of the other lists that are out on the web with their own best of lists including Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Metal Kingdom, and more. Just in time for Christmas we bookend our episode with two xmas metal classics. 

 

 

King Diamond- No Presents for Christmas
DJ Anubis- Intro
Malignant Altar- Ceremonial Decapitator
Intestinal Hex- Collisions of the Innocent
Bloodbeat- Beyond the Skeletons
The Ruins of Beverast- Anchoress in Furs
Akhenaten- Halls of Amenti 
Astyanax- Gruesome Spontaneous Conflagration
Rivers of Nihil- Maybe One Day 
Deafheaven- Villain 
Culak- Crystalline 
Enforced- Hemorrhage 
Oxygen Destroyer- Their Reign Has Begun
Wormwitch- The Wolves of Ossory
Wolves in the Throne Room- Masters of Rain and Storm
Salqiu- IV: Lazarus 
Thyrfing- Jordafard
A Pale Horse Named Death- Believe in Something (You Are Lost)
Voices- Whispers 
Gravehuffer- Mad Wolf
Blind Guardian- Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade Cover)

 

 

 

Noobs ranking of the albums:

 

1. Enforced- Kill Grid
2. Rivers of Nihil- The Work
3. Akhenaten- The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
4. Thyrfing- Vanagandr
5. Malignant Altar- Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
6. Wormwitch- Wolf Hex
7. Deafheaven- Infinite Granite
8. Wolves in the Throne Room- Primordial Arcana
9. Intestinal Hex- The Exalted Chambers of Abhorrence
10. Oxygen Destroyer- Sinister Monstrositites Spawned by 
the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind
11. Astyanax- Extreme Antinatilist Design
12. The Ruins of Beverast- The Thule Grimoires
13. Salqiu- Lazarus Denied
14. Culak- Glass Sanctuary
15. Bloodbeat- Process of Extinction
16. Gravehuffer- NecroEclosion
17. A Pale Horse Named Death- Infernum in Terra
18. Voices- Breaking the Trauma Bond