Best Album of 2021 - Readers' Choice

Metal Epidemic are excited to present the Readers’ Poll for Best Metal Album of 2021!

As the Metal Epidemic team frantically put together their end of year lists, we’re turning it over to you, the readers, to have your say on what was the best album of 2021. We’ve put together this pretty bitchin’ list of albums released this year, so go forth and vote for your top THREE most-loved albums of 2021!

Still undecided? Check out our ‘Best Metal Albums of 2021‘ playlist on Spotify.

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Pick your 3 favourite albums of 2021:

Utopia - Stalker
Pissing Razors - Eulogy Death March
The Wildhearts - 21st Century Love Songs
Dream Troll - Realm of the Tormentor
Still - { }
Epiphanic Truth - Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species
Fractal Universe - The Impassable Horizon
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
Gojira - Fortitude
SERLING - The James Bevis Chronicles
Florence Black - Weight Of The World
The Middlenight Men - Issue 1
Volbeat - Servant Of The Mind
Leprous - Aphelion
Archspire - Bleed the Future
Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
Rivers of Nihil - The Work
Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
Helloween - Helloween
Wowod - Yarost' I Proshchenie
Those Damn Crows - Point of No Return
Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
Cognitive - Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction
Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
Ministry - Moral Hygiene
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc.
Every Time I Die - Radical
Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament
Boss Keloid - Family the Smiling Thrush
Turnstile - Glow On
Kilpréz - Patron Saint of Lost Causes
MØL - Diorama
Dvne - Etemen Ænka
Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
LLNN - Unamker
Green Lung - Black Harvest
Employed to Serve - Conquering
Exodus - Persona Non Grata
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
200 Stab Wounds - Slave to the Scalpel
Vildhjarta - måsstaden under vatten
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Harakiri for the Sky - Mære
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Limp Bizkit - STILL SUCKS
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
Cradle of Filth - Existence is Futile
Accept - Too Mean to Die
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist
Vola - Witness
IDLES - CRAWLER
URNE - Serpent & Spirit
Devil Sold His Soul - Loss
Amenra - De Doorn
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden's Gate
At the Gates - The Nightmare of Being
Slaughter to Prevail - Kostolom
Soen - Imperial
Evile - Hell Unleashed
Converge - Bloodmoon: I
Inferi - Vile Genesis
Mastiff - Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth
Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star
Tribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Beast in Black - Dark Connection
Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality
While She Sleeps - SLEEPS SOCIETY
Jinjer - Wallflowers
Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood
Sugar Horse - The Live Long After
Cult of Luna - The Raging River
Tremonti - Marching In Time
Warrior Path - The Mad King
Frontierer - Oxidized
Twelve Foot Ninja - Vengeance
Be'lakor - Coherence
Zao - The Crimson Corridor
Obscura - A Valediction
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
Mental Torment - Ego:Genesis
Quicksand-Distant populations
Osiah - Loss
Eyehategod - A History of Nomadic Behavior
Ghost Iris - Comatose
Black Sheep Wall - Songs for the Enamel Queen
1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
Unto Others - Strength
The Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic II
ERRA - ERRA
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
Portal - Avow
Hypocrisy - Worship
Cynic - Ascension Codes
Poppy - Flux
Danko Jones - Power trio
LINGUA IGNOTA - SINNER GET READY
Red Fang - Arrows
Whitechapel - Kin
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Ophidian I - Desolate
Summoning the Lich - United in Chaos
Lorna Shore - Hellfire
Blood Red Throne - Imperial Congregation
Maybeshewill - No Feeling Is Final
Frozen Soul - Crypt of Ice
Erdve - Savigaila
Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions
Worst Doubt - Extinction
Wheel - Resident Human
Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT - Noktvrn
Khemmis - Deceiver
Aeons - Consequences
Stortregn - Impermanence
Hippotraktor - Meridian
Dordeduh - Har
Knoll - Interstice
Dare - Against All Odds
Atræ Bilis - Apexapien
Asphyx - Necroceros
Vexed - Culling Culture
Werewolves - What a Time to Be Alive
Worm - Foreverglade
Throne - Pestilent Dawn
Times of Grace - Songs of Loss and Separation
Abscession - Rot of Ages
Clouds - Despartire
Reaper - Rebirth Of Chaos
Funeral – Praesentialis In Aeternum
Non Serviam - Le Coeur Bat
Olde - Pilgrimage
Silent Planet - Iridescent
Tombstoner - Victims of Vile Torture
Haunt - Beautiful Distraction
Aborted - ManiaCult
Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Nightmare Withdrawals
Bossk - Migration
Molybaron - The Mutiny
Foreign Pain - Death of Divinity
Abiotic - Ikigai
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Baest - Necro Sapiens
Impure Wilhelmina - Antidote
Yautja - The Lurch
Monolord - Your Time To Shine
Quiet - ...and so it was
Filth Is Eternal - Love is a Lie, Filth is Eternal
We Butter The Bread With Butter - Das Album
Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
Space Chaser - Give Us Life
Annisokay - Aurora
Memoriam - To The End
Kal-El - Majesty
Humanity's Last Breath - Välde
Zeromancer - Orchestra of Knives
Bailer - Disposable Youth
KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
Noctule - Wretched Abyss
Ghost Bath - Self Loather
Four Stroke Baron - Classics
Distant - Aeons of Oblivion
Criminal - Sacrificio
Vorvan - Awakened
Go Ahead and Die - Go Ahead and Die
Stone Healer - Conquistador
Interloper - Search Party
Wanderer - Liberation From a Brutalist Existence
Wormwitch - Wolf Hex
Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone
Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole
Sugar Wounds - Calico Dreams
DAXMA - Unmarked Boxes
Outrun the Sunlight - A Vast Field of Silence
Loathe - The Things They Believe
Somnent - Gardens from Graves
Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality
Icons of filth - Plight
White Void - Anti
SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Romance of Affliction
Bleeding Antlers - Stagmata
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
Omnium Gatherum - Origin
Kyle Sevenoaks xD
Stormtide - A Throne of Hollow Fire
Sons of Alpha Centauri - Push
ILLT - Urhat
Running Wild - Blood On Blood
Evergrey - Escape of the Phoenix
Vreid - Wild North West
Hate - Rugia
Bonecarver - Evil
The Sound That Ends Creation - Boomers, Zoomers, Desperate Coomers
Vitrified Entity - Eternal Vitreous Dissolve
Arcane Sanctuary - Astraios' Calling
In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
Aeon - Gods End Here
Fallen Lillies - No Master For Lilly
Born of Osiris - Angel or Alien
The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Sepiroth - Condemned to Suffer
Alustrium - A Monument to Silence
The Amenta - Revelator
Bloody Hammers - Songs of Unspeakable Terror
Throat - Smile Less
Sunless - Ylem
Enforced - Kill Grid
Cruelty - There Is No God Where I Am
Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upon
Crawl Below - 9 Mile Square
The Limit - Caveman Logic
Moon Reaper - Descent
Sentinels - Collapse By Design
Heiress - Distant Fires
Lock Up - The Dregs of Hades
Skepticism - Companion
Volumes - Happier?
Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal
Genocide Pact - Genocide Pact
God's Hate - God's Hate
The Maledict - Remembrance
Starset - Horizons
Bridge Burner - Disempath
Darko US - Darko
Kehlvin - Holstic Dreams
Cognizance - Upheaval
Imminence - Heaven in Hiding
The Age Of Truth - Resolute
Sonic Flower - Rides Again
Poisoned Breath - No Kings No Gods
Violet Cold - Empire of Love
Wolf King - The Path of Wrath
Thecityisours - Coma
Necronautical - Slain in the Spirit
Hrast - Beyond the Ethereal Horizon
The Scalar Process - Coagulative Matter
Angelus Apatrida - Angelus Apatrida
Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
Cathexis - Untethered Abyss
The Bronx - Bronx VI
To Kill Achilles - Something to Remember Me By
Painted Wives - New Medusa
Fractal Generator - Macrocosmos
Livløs - And Then There Were Nonw
Sarin - You Can't Go Back
SNAFU - Exile // Banishment
Reaping Asmodeia - Darkened Infinity
Wristmeetrazor - Replica of a Strange Love
Lantlôs - Wildhund
Hanging Garden - Skeleton Lake
Scarred - Scarred
Logistic Slaughter - Lower Forms of Life
Convictions - I Won't Survive
Dying Wish - Fragments of a Bitter Memory
INTHEWHALE - Vanishing Point
Jess and the Ancient Ones - Vertigo
Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere
Somnuri - Nefarious Wave
Shi - Basement Wizard
Tetrarch - Unstable
Head of Jeddore - How to Slaughter a Lamb
Moanhand - Present Serpent
Spiritworld - Pagan Rhythms
Crown Magnetar - The Codex of Flesh
Eternal Struggle - Year of the Gun
One Morning Left - Hyperactive
She Said Destroy - Succession
NYT LIV - Den Døde Sol
Doodswens - Lichtvrees
Slope - Street Heat
Wraith - Undo the Chains
Montezuma's Revenge - S.W.I.M.
Sleep Waker - Alias
Deviant Process - Nurture
Mouth For War - Life Cast in Glass
Draemora - Death Rectangle
Sullen - Nodus Tollens Act I: Oblivion
The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
Ghostheart Nebula - Ascension
High Desert Queen - Secrets of the Black Moon
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24 thoughts on “Best Album of 2021 – Readers’ Choice”

Barbara Estrada says: 2 years ago

The Pissing Razors…Eulogy death March….Simply the “best…
1. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Thank you Barbara! Love to you & Joshua!
Cesar Garza says: 2 years ago

Pissing Razors just an Awesome Band
1. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Because of awesome RAZOR NATION! Thank u Brother.
Todd Soukup says: 2 years ago

Absolutely PISSING RAZORS Texas Strong 🤘🔥🔥🔥🤘
1. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Hell yeah Brother! You’re here with us in Razor Nation!
Paul Williams says: 2 years ago

Pissing Razors rock my hometown band congrats and continued blessings
1. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Thank u Brother, much love!
2. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Thank u Brother, much appreciated. Blessings & much love!
michael duenas says: 2 years ago

PISSING RAZORS!
GREAT :
Band.
Music.
People.

RAZORS RULE !!
1. PISSING RAZORS says: 2 years ago
  
  Thank u Brother. You’re here with us!
Ty says: 2 years ago

Very happy to see SERLING on this list! Underrated mathcore band!
Laura says: 2 years ago

John Bailey
Fantastic Band
Mish says: 2 years ago

Lot’s of great bands on here, props to them all! But I stay loyal to The Pissing Razors!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Homero Enriquez says: 2 years ago

Pissing Razors, Enough Said!!!!!!!!!!
Andrew says: 2 years ago

PISSING RAZORS
TEXAS LOUD TEXAS PROUD!🤘
Jason says: 2 years ago

🔥PISSING RAZORS🔥
🔥 💀 🔥
Mark Perea says: 2 years ago

Since 1999’s
” Cast Down The Plague ”
My only choice here.
These guys work hard and are truly great musicians. 🤘
1. Mark Perea says: 2 years ago
  
  Pissing Razors my only choice
Anonymous says: 2 years ago

Hoping for some Utopia euphoria …
Ino says: 2 years ago

Pissing Razors!!!🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻 Texas loud… Texas proud!!!
JR Vega says: 2 years ago

Razor Nation!! Keeping it heavy!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
Mikhail says: 2 years ago

Where is Sterbefall – Verlorene Zeit ??
Pete Wall says: 2 years ago

Love for the 0.52% that fuck with LLNN. 🤘