With a year of endless shit there were still plenty of killer releases. Many won't be on this list but will and still get played. Originally picking 35 but one last entrant made this 36 for 2021. These aren't the best but are my favorites for the year. I don't care to explain why each album made the list.
Don't see your favorite on the list?
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36. Invultation
"Unconquerable Death"
(Born for Burning Productions)
35. Oldskull
"Nether Hollow of No Return"
(Inhuman Assault Productions)
34. Savage Necromancy
"Feathers Fall to Flames"
(Inhuman Assault Productions)
33. Krolok
"Funeral Winds & Crimson Sky"
(Osmose Productions)
32. Maze of Terror
"Offer to the Fucking Beasts"
(Xtreem Music)
31. Morbific
"Ominous Seep of Putridity"
(Headsplit Records)
30. Huoripukki
"Ikuinen kamppailu"
(Fallen Temple)
29. Hulder
"Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry"
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
28. Warloghe
"Three Angled Void"
(Northern Heritage Records)
27. Malignant Altar
"Realms of Exquisite Morbidity"
(Dark Descent Records)
26. Haalbuaer
"Mortal Ones Scream in Horror"
(Caligari Records)
25. Black Jackal
"Forever War"
(Goat Throne Records)
24. Frightful
"Spectral Creator"
(Awakening Records)
23. Konquest
"The Night Goes On"
(Awakening Records)
22. Gallows
"66 Black Wings"
(Katafalque)
21. Funeral Mist
"Deiform"
(Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
20. Venefixion
"A Sigh from Below"
(Iron Bonehead Productions)
19. Gauntlet Ring
"Upon the Wings of the Black Eagle"
(Blood and Crescent Productions)
18. Disembody
"Reigniting Hellfire"
(Independent)
17. Gosudar
"Morbid Despotic Ritual"
(Rotted Life Records)
16. Sněť
"Mokvání v okovech"
(Blood Harvest)
15. Black Spirit
"El sueño de la razón produce monstruos"
(Infinite Night Records)
14. Eternal Evil
"The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter!"
(Redefining Darkness Records)
13. Pan-Amerikan Native Front
"Little Turtle's War"
(Independent)
12. Nuclear Revenge
"Dawn of the Primitive Age"
(Awakening Records)
(Headsplit Records)
11. Proscriptor McGovern's Apsû
"S/T"
(Agonia Records)
10. Warmoon Lord
"Battlespells"
(Werewolf Records)
9. Baxaxaxa
"Catacomb Cult"
(The Sinister Flame)
8. Cambion
"Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium"
(Lavadome Productions)
7. Archgoat
"Worship the Eternal Darkness"
(Debemur Morti Productions)
6. Hexorcist
"Evil Reaping Death"
(Memento Mori)
(Godz ov War Productions)
5. Savage Deity
"Decade of Savagery"
(Inhuman Assault Productions)
4. Funeral Chant
"Dawn of Annihilation"
(Carbonized Records)
3. Phrenelith
"Chimaera"
(Nuclear Winter Records)
2. Concrete Winds
"Nerve Butcherer"
(Sepulchral Voice Records)
1. Force of Darkness
"Twilight of Dark Illumination"
(Iron Pegasus Records)
Here are a few other releases that didn't make the list worth mentioning.
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