Steak's mf 2021
Goodass year fellas and bros, don't think it was as strong as last year but there were some ultimate bangers. Only gonna do a big description for number 1, I have a lot to get through here. Got a lot of honorable mentions as I jammed a lot of shit this year, here you go pals happy new year |
| 84 |  | Magdalena Bay
Mercurial World
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Static Dress - Prologue...
Imminence - Heaven in Hiding
Plebeian Grandstand - Rien ne suffit
Silk Sonic - An Evening with Silk Sonic
Sentinels (US) - Collapse by Design
Kraus - View No Country
Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World
A Ritual Sea - A Ritual Sea
Eidola - The Architect
RP Boo - Established!
If I Die First - They Drew Blood
The Killers - Pressure Machine
Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen
Unreqvited - Beautiful Ghosts
Lorna Shore - ...And I Return to Nothingness
Tinashe - 333
Foxing - Draw Down the Moon
Lantlos - Wildhund
Yanari - Bottom of the Universe
Nightlife - new low
Doja Cat - Planet Her
Votto - Quindi noi sbagliando facemmo giusto
Observist - From the Ashes
Circuit Circuit - s/t
TDWP - Z2
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Dreamwell - Modern Grotesque
Snail's House - love songs
Landon Tewers - Frontal Lobe Submission
Sithu Aye - Senpai III
Beldame - Unrequited
Cacola - A Gift to Us All |
| 83 |  | Ryo Fukui
Live at Vidro '77
High Honorable Mention
Piano Jazz
This man was a genius |
| 82 |  | Muse
Origin of Symmetry: XX Anniversary RemiXX
High Honorable Mention
Muse!
Very rad that they did a redux of this album, it meant a lot to me growing up and Matt Bellamy was my inspiration to play guitar |
| 81 |  | Mental Cruelty
A Hill to Die Upon
Deathcore
Nice deathcore to start us off hi! |
| 80 |  | The World Is a Beautiful Place...
Illusory Walls
Post Rock/Midwest Emo
This thing is long and very pretty at times! |
| 79 |  | Heliocentric
Ishmael
Metalcore
This guy likes Silent Planet! |
| 78 |  | Vildhjarta
MΓ₯sstaden Under Vatten
THALL
The wait for this was excruciating in the first few years, then felt nothing, and then it was actually coming out and hype! Very good stuff! |
| 77 |  | Sundreamer
Sundreamer
Metalcore
Fun little EP from Aussie land! |
| 76 |  | Dragony
Viribus Unitis
Power Metal
Epic and bombastic and cheesy! |
| 75 |  | How to Care for Flowers
The Clutter of Old Love: A Birdwatcher's Diary
Emo/Post Hardcore/Screamo
auberginedreams made an EP and it was good stuff!! |
| 74 |  | Stormkeep
Tales of Othertime
Melodic Black Metal
Rad as hell meloblack stuff! |
| 73 |  | Japanese Breakfast
Jubilee
Indie Pop
Cutesy indie pop that gets dreamy too ! |
| 72 |  | Tyler, the Creator
Call Me If You Get Lost
Experimental Hip Hop
The dude from the internet with the memes! |
| 71 |  | Shame (UK)
Drunk Tank Pink
Post Punk
These guys are british as hell! |
| 70 |  | Snag
Death Doula
Screamo
Look at the cool turtle! |
| 69 |  | Telomere (CAN)
Where Are We Still
Mathy Post Hardcore
This is fun and cool! |
| 68 |  | Cynic
Ascension Codes
Prog Death Metal I guess with beep boops
More like ASScension Codes amirite lmao but ya this album is good |
| 67 |  | Devil Sold His Soul
Loss
Post metal/ Post rockcore
First album in 9 years and hey it's pretty good! |
| 66 |  | Julien Baker
Little Oblivions
Sputcore/Indie Folk
The sputcore darling! |
| 65 |  | Cara Neir
Phase Out
Black Metal/Screamo/This time it's like video game roguelike music
I'm crawling around in a dungeon getting loot while a man is shouting at me |
| 64 |  | Archspire
Bleed the Future
Tech Death
Obnoxiously over the top tech death that makes me laugh at how fun and stupid it is |
| 63 |  | Roar
Diamond Destroyer of Death
Indie Rock/Indie Pop
Neat little indie gem |
| 62 |  | Full of Hell
Garden of Burning Apparitions
Deathgrind/Grindcore/Grind your damn nuts
Batshit insane grind cool! |
| 61 |  | Tokenai Namae
Taimu mashin ga kowareru mae ni
Shoegaze/Noise Pop/Dream Pop
This is very nice and cool and johnnyofthewellcore |
| 60 |  | Ulthima
Symphony of the Night
Power Metal
Embrace the cheese folks! |
| 59 |  | MouthBreather (USA-MA)
I'm Sorry Mr. Salesman
Mathcore/Metalcore
This beats ass |
| 58 |  | Ad Nauseam
Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Jac Disso Death
It's Ad Nauseam! Very cool disso black death metal ! |
| 57 |  | Frontierer
Oxidized
Mathcore/Lasers
very pummeling and headache inducing in the best way, Frontierer rebounds back from a sophomore slump to release their best album woo! |
| 56 |  | Youth Novel
Youth Novel
Screamo
Screamo! |
| 55 |  | Vientre
Estado de Imago
Screamo/Alt Rock/Melodic Post Hardcore
Cool screamo boys from Colombia ! |
| 54 |  | Portrayal of Guilt
We Are Always Alone
Blackened Screamo
The first release of the year from them and it goes hard who knew! |
| 53 |  | Pupil Slicer
Mirrors
Mathcore
This goes dummy hord |
| 52 |  | Poppy
EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
Poppycore but with a screaming twist!
Poppy does the scream! and it's good! |
| 51 |  | Erdve
Savigaila
Sludgecore
This shit beats you relentlessly with a hammer |
| 50 |  | Tim Reaper
Teletext EP
Jungle/Breaks
Very fun beep boops |
| 49 |  | Avalanche in Kyoto
Reminiscencias
Progressive Metalcore
Progcore from Chile! These guys rule! And I'm assuming they like Novelists a lot! |
| 48 |  | Brand of Sacrifice
Lifeblood
Deathcore
I am by no means a deathcore kid anymore like I was in 2012, but this shit goes so hard and Kyle (rip The Afterimage) is a fantastic vocalist |
| 47 |  | Yukika
Timeabout,
City Pop/KPOP
She is back after her phenomenal debut last year with a more mellowy EP, still fun and funky tho! |
| 46 |  | Sleigh Bells
Texis
Electropop/Noise Pop
This band is a Poison the Well member lol fun noisey pop stuff! |
| 45 |  | Billie Eilish
Happier Than Ever
Alt Pop I guess
It's Billie Eilish! |
| 44 |  | IU
Lilac
KPOP
It's kpop okay it's fun okay! |
| 43 |  | Sweet Trip
A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
Dream Pop/IDM
IDM means I'm Da Man |
| 42 |  | Rx Nephew
Slitherman Activated
Trap/Experimental Hip Hop/idk ask Ryus he'd know better
This dude insane with the funniest bars imaginable on top of sick as fuck beats let's go my children |
| 41 |  | The Armed
Ultrapop
Ultrapop
Ultrapoop lmao |
| 40 |  | Death Goals
The Horrible and The Miserable
Screamo/Mathcore
really dope mathy screamo ! |
| 39 |  | Sunami/Gulch
Split
Beatdown/Hardcore
I have been beaten to death |
| 38 |  | Psychic Mirrors
Ophilia
Synth Funk/Yacht Rock
This album trapped me inside a sega genesis a month ago and I cannot get out |
| 37 |  | Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Noktvrn
Atmospheric Black Metal
If you told me a year ago that I'd get somewhat into black metal I would kill you on the spot |
| 36 |  | Karmanjakah
A Book About Itself
Prog Metal
Idk wtf a Karmanjakah is but this is rad proggy metal with a good vocalist! |
| 35 |  | Origami Button
No Parking
Math Rock
Math Rock! |
| 34 |  | Structures
None of the Above
Djent/Hardcore
They're back! I saw these guys at a bar in 2013 and they beat ass lmao |
| 33 |  | Mirrors (AUS)
The Ego's Weight
Progressive Metalcore
Progcore from Australia you know the drill, solid as hell boy |
| 32 |  | Portrayal of Guilt
Christfucker
Krusty Krab/Blackened Screamo
Album number 2 from them this year and it rules despite what the nerds tell you! |
| 31 |  | Drumcorps
Better Days
Cybergrind/Breakcore
Look at the kitty! |
| 30 |  | Remi Wolf
Juno
Contemporary RnB/Alt Pop/Indie Pop
Extremely funky fresh and fun pop music! |
| 29 |  | Olivia Rodrigo
SOUR
Taylor Swift/Paramorecore/tik tok
Zoomer sensation that I was almost stockholm syndromed into liking makes a good album showing potential for something even better down the road! |
| 28 |  | Lost For Life
Don't Let It Consume You
Metalcore/Hardcore
Ex-For the Fallen Dreams vocalist who released a nostalgic EP last year makes debut LP and it's good! |
| 27 |  | Galleons
Galleons
Post Hardcore
These guys are very fun and get noodly on the guitars, vocalist is pretty distinct in that he has a lower register voice in a sea of higher pitched vocalists! |
| 26 |  | Eonia
To Live With Purpose
Progressive Metalcore
Progcore that is much like apple pie, nothing I haven't had before but it's solid as hell and good! |
| 25 |  | Spirit Breaker
Cura Nata
Progressive Metalcore
Rad newer progcore that tries to have its own identity rather than just leaning on what the pillars of the genre do! |
| 24 |  | Gold Necklace
Gold Necklace
RnBcore/Post Hardcore
Vibey sexy Kurt Travis post hardcore! |
| 23 |  | Kayo Dot
Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Avant Garde Metal lol
This sounds like the soundtrack to going through a dnd campaign! |
| 22 |  | for your health
In Spite Of
Screamo!
Very good screamo from early in the year, got some fun mathy noodling going on too! |
| 21 |  | Goreshit
Ap2
Hardcore Breaks
This shit fun as hell, talmbout beep boop with the breaks big man wassup |
| 20 |  | Spiritbox
Eternal Blue
Metalcore/trendycore
This band was everywhere and you couldn't get a word in edgewise without hearing this band's name, and then the album dropped! Cool stuff! Lady vocals and she scream! Ah! |
| 19 |  | Tilian
Factory Reset
Pop Rock/Alt Rock/Electropop
Tilian comes out with his best solo album yet, full of disgustingly catchy hooks and very fun instrumentation, yay! |
| 18 |  | Future Foundation
Trinity
Easycore/Pop Punk
Japanese supergroup consisting of members from Crystal Lake (Ryo Kinoshita, Yudai Miyamoto), SHADOWS (Hiro, Kazuki, Takahiro), and NOISEMAKER (AG, Hide, Yu-Ki, Uta), incredibly fun little EP! |
| 17 |  | KennyHoopla
Survivors Guilt: The Mixtape//
Emo Pop Punk
This is very Blink-182 and very fun! Travis Barker is on this because of course he is, and my man Kenny (I assume PHD Dr. Kenneth Hoopla) goes hard on vox let's go like it's 2000 bros |
| 16 |  | Knocked Loose
A Tear in the Fabric of Life
Hardcore
Beat you the fuck down hardcore that almost has deathcore elements in it, goes hard!! |
| 15 |  | Silent Planet
Iridescent
Metalcore/Progressive Metalcore
Rebounding back from the somewhat weak WTEB, this album goes hard as hell and is driven hard by Garrett as he continues to impress and grow as a vocalist, even showcasing some cleans! Ah! |
| 14 |  | Don Broco
Amazing Things
Alt Rock/Alt Metal
This guys know how to make fun stupid bangers, and this album is no exception. Gumshield one of the best songs of the year fr fr |
| 13 |  | The Amity Affliction
Somewhere Beyond the Blue
Metalcore/Post Hardcore
I've always had a soft spot for these guys, but this is the best this band has sounded since Let The Ocean Take Me. Ahren brings back some screams along with bringing back some genuinely strong choruses, Joel's screams are always getting better, and this EP just rocks bros it's rad. |
| 12 |  | Volumes
Happier?
Djent/Metalcore
Michael Barr came back and this band sounds fresh and full of life again. His screams rip through the air with a jagged knife and his chemistry with Myke is unreal. |
| 11 |  | Musk Ox
Inheritance
Neofolk/Dark Folk
This is just skyrim/witcher/enter other fantasy rpg music lol it's good! |
| 10 |  | Hail the Sun
New Age Filth
Post Hardcore/Swancore
One of the last pillars of swancore left standing, Hail the Sun delivers their best album since Wake! Donovan does the cool singing and the guitarists do the noodles and riffs! |
| 9 |  | bye2
Teeth Restoration
Breakcore/Hardcore Breaks/Jungle
Getting into jungle and breakcore a little bit this year was fun, it always feels like I'm being pelted with Sega game code. This is crazy and beautiful. |
| 8 |  | Kaonashi
Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year
Mathcore/Post Hardcore
After finding these guys last year I immediately wanted an album, and lucky for me they dropped this fantastic debut earlier this year. Peter pushes his vocals to almost wacky levels (which only cowards don't like lol fight me bih), and the aural assault of math riffs is mesmorizing and fun! |
| 7 |  | Invent Animate
The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was
Progressive Metalcore
What an ass beater this is. Just a 3 song EP but man was this impressive, showing that the comeback album last year was no fluke with their new vocalist. |
| 6 |  | Bilmuri
400LB BACK SQUAT
Post Hardcore/Alt Rock/Pop
Bilmuri continues to impress me with his interesting mix of genres and sounds, seamlessly going from screeching heavy sections to singalong choruses without breaking a sweat. Jam this shit dudes |
| 5 |  | Every Time I Die
Radical
Metalcore
I don't need to tell you about this album, it's ETID you already know what it is. Fun metalcore with riffs and beatdown breakdowns galore at a breakneck pace, with Keith at his absolute best. |
| 4 |  | Turnstile
Glow On
Post Hardcore/Alt Rock/Hardcore I guess lol
This record is fun as hell dude! You got fun pit stompers, surf rockin bangers, vibe heavy alty shit, listen to it! |
| 3 |  | Erra
Erra
Progressive Metalcore
Erra has been the most important band in my life. I first found these guys on a youtube 'best breakdowns' video in 2010, with their song 'Of Rare Reform' gracing my ears for the first time. To say I was blown away would be the understatement of the century; I knew then and there that I had just found my new favorite band. They would go on to make my then favorite album 'Impulse' in 2011, then one upping themselves and making my favorite album ever 'Augment' in 2013, and life was amazing for a young steak in a blossoming progcore scene thanks in part to Erra, Northlane, Elitist, etc. Then in 2014 tragedy would strike in my world with a single headline: Garrison Lee was leaving Erra, and along with him was the departure of Alan Rigdon, leaving Jesse to fend for himself in the songwriting department for the first time in his Erra career. With a small EP full of Augment b sides out of the way, the new era of Erra had begun with now frontman JT Cavey. |
| 2 | | Erra
Erra
My metalcore bros can tell you what my thoughts were on this new lineup, and it's that the new lineup was a huge drop in quality. To say the least, Drift was one of the most disappointing albums I had ever heard (though I do like it), and Neon was more of the same; the Erra of old had disappeared, and in its place was a neutered shell of what had made the band so special to me in the first place. JT was a monotonous and boring frontman who couldn't drive a song like Garrison or even Ian before him, and while Jesse was always technically improving as a guitarist, the songwriting department took a significant dive. There were always flashes of brilliance captured in each album, but nothing was showing me that the old Erra was ever going to come back. |
| 1 | | Erra
Erra
Then Eye of God dropped. This song was the absolute best song they had released since Augment with each band member firing on all cylinders. JT brought variety to his harsh vocals, Jesse was soaring over the music with revitalized hooks, and the production was finally sounding beefy again. Every single that dropped was showing a newly reenergized Erra, and I was confident this would be the best album they had released since the glory days of this band. Come album release, and I almost wanted to cry tears of joy from what I heard. Jesse was pounding out riffs and melodies that sounded like they were made in a jet turbine, JT delivered his best vocal performance ever recorded with much needed variety, and everything just sounded so FULL and BEEFY. Erra returned to me, and that made me happier than I could've ever imagined. |
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