Notrap's 2021
Some disappointments, some nice surprises - business as usual - but overall it was a good year for metal. These are my highlights. As always, the individual rankings aren't just based solely on the technical factor. |
100 | | Accept Too Mean to Die
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE YEAR
Accept_Too Mean to Die
Exodus_Persona Non Grata
Artillery_X
Rivers of Nihil_The Work
Burning Witches_The Witch of the North |
99 | | Witch Vomit Abhorrent Rapture
BEST EP
Witch Vomit_Abhorrent Rapture
Cult of Luna_The Raging River
Perilaxe_Occlusion_Raytraces of Death
Gatecreeper_An Unexpected Reality
Enslaved_Caravans to the Outer Worlds |
98 | | Diabolizer Khalkedonian Death
MOST UNDERRATED ALBUMS (under 25 votes and a rating of less than 3.8)
Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death
Horndal_Lake Drinker
Inoculation - Celestial Putridity
Korpse (NL)_Insufferable Violence
The Monolith Deathcult - V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots |
97 | | Born of Osiris Angel or Alien
BEST RIFF
Born of Osiris – Oathbreaker (opening riff)
Be'lakor – Valence (main/opening riff)
Malignant Altar_Rite of Krasue (ending riff)
Suffering Hour – Strongholds of Awakening (main/opening riff)
Dvne - Sì-XIV (main/opening riff)
Enforced – Trespasser (ending riff)
The Ruins of Beverast – Deserts to Bind and Defeat (6:37 – 7:14)
Cryptosis – Decypher (main riff)
The Ruins of Beverast – Polar Hiss Hysteria (1:07 – 1:19 / 2:15 – 3:05)
Asphix – Knights Templar Stand (main/opening riff) |
96 | | Obscura A Valediction
BEST GUITAR SOLO
Obscura – Solaris (Christian Münzner)
Evergrey – Eternal Nocturnal (Tom S Englund, Henrik Danhage)
Soen – Illusion (Cody Lee Ford)
Alustrium – A Monument to Silence (Mike DeMaria / Chris Kelly)
Stortregn – Ghosts of the Past (Duran K. Bathija) |
95 | | Iron Maiden Senjutsu
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Iron Maiden – The Writing on The Wall
Extermination Dismemberment - Protonemesis
Gojira - Born of One Thing
Archspire - Drone Corpse Aviator
Gojira – Amazonia |
94 | | Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water
BEST VOCALS
Eric A.K. - Flotsam and Jetsam
Oliver Rae Aleron - Archspire
Tom S Englund – Evergrey
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher – Cannibal Corpse
Michael Kiske / Andi Deris – Helloween
Joel Ekelöf – Soen
Dani Filth - Cradle of Filth
Sven de Caluwé - Aborted
Mark Tremonti - Tremonti
Dee Snider |
93 | | Obscura A Valediction
BEST GUITARIST
Steffen Kummerer / Christian Münzner - Obscura
Johan Smith / Duran K. Bathija – Stortregn
H SÃmon Þórólfsson / DanÃel Máni Konráðsson - Ophidian I
Mike DeMaria / Chris Kelly - Alustrium
Dean Lamb / Tobi Morelli - Archspire |
92 | | Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
BEST BASSIST
Matteo B. - Ad Nauseam
Steve Harris – Iron Maiden
Jared Smith – Archspire
Jeroen Paul Thesseling – Obscura
Alex Webster – Cannibal Corpse |
91 | | Archspire Bleed the Future
BEST DRUMMER
Spencer Prewett – Archspire
Dobber Beverly - Malignant Altar
Andrea S. – Ad Nauseam
Taylor Hamel – Sunless
Nicko McBrain - Iron Maiden |
90 | | Dream Theater A View from the Top of the World
BEST KEYBOARDIST
Jordan Rudess - Dream Theater / Liquid Tension Experiment
Rikard Zander - Evergrey
Steve Merry - Be'lakor |
89 | | Helloween Helloween
BEST ARTWORK
Helloween – Helloween, Eliran Kantor
Altarage - Succumb, David Jorquera
Seth - La Morsure du Christ, Leoncio Harmr
Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse, Vama Marga
Humanity's Last Breath – Välde, Mariusz Lewandowski |
88 | | Cryptosis Bionic Swarm
BEST DEBUT ALBUM
Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm
Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
The Temple (NZ) - The Temple
Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death
Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
Burial (ITA)_Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium...
200 Stab Wounds - Slave to the Scalpel
Forhist - Forhist
Apparition – Feel
Moral Collapse - Moral Collapse
Atrae Bilis - Apexapien |
87 | | Sorcerer Reverence
BEST COVER SONG
Waiting for Darkness (Ozzy Osbourne cover) |
86 | | Iron Maiden Senjutsu
BEST SONGS
Iron Maiden – Days of Future Past
Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood in the Water
Iron Maiden – The Parchment
Enforced – Malignance
Cryptosis – Decypher
Be’lakor – Valence
Tears for Fears – The Tipping Point
Dvne - Sì-XIV
Stortregn – Nénie
Dee Snider – I Gotta Rock (again)
Evergrey - Leaden Saints
Altarage – Magno Evento
Helloween – Fear of the Fallen
Archspire – Bleed the Future
Erdve – Lavondėmės
Mastodon – Teardrinker
Alustrium – A Monument to Silence
Thy Catafalque - Köszöntsd a hajnalt
Ophidian I – Diamonds
Cradle of Filth - Necromantic Fantasies
Hyperdontia – Grinding Teeth
Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Monument
Suffering Hour – Strongholds of Awakening
Soen – Illusion
The Ruins of Beverast – Polar Hiss Hysteria |
85 | | Asphyx Necroceros
BEST ALBUMS 2021 (TOP 85)
Highlights: Knights Templar Stand, Yield or Die |
84 | | Celestial Swarm Gateways to the Necroverse
Highlights: The Harvesters, Forlon Oblivion |
83 | | Dvne Etemen Ænka
Highlights: Sì-XIV, Towers |
82 | | Noctambulist The Barren Form
Highlights: Depletion, Infinitesimal |
81 | | Soen Imperial
Highlights: Illusion, Antagonist |
80 | | Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole
Highlights: Menstrual Envy, Dragged by a Truck, Dead as Shit |
79 | | Galvanizer Prying Sight Of Imperception
Highlights: Servants of the Scourge, The Inexorable, The Ever-Crescent |
78 | | Devoid of Thought Outer World Graves
Highlights: Perennial Dream |
77 | | Inferi (USA) Vile Genesis
Highlights: From Exile to Exaltation |
76 | | Lvcifyre The Broken Seal
Highlights: Gods Await Us |
75 | | Dying Wish Fragments of a Bitter Memory
Highlights: Until Mourning Comes, Enemies in Red |
74 | | Atrae Bilis Apexapien
Highlights: Theta, By the Hierophant’s Maw, Bacterium Abloom |
73 | | Withered Verloren
Highlights: By Tooth in Tongue |
72 | | Ghastly (FIN) Mercurial Passages
Highlights: Sea of Light |
71 | | Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality
Highlights: Vile Yolk Contagion |
70 | | Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent
Highlights: Goat of Mendes, Shock and Awe |
69 | | Iotunn Access All Worlds
Highlights: Voyage of the Garganey I, The Tower of Cosmic Nihility |
68 | | Crypts of Despair All Light Swallowed
Highlights: Excruciating Weight |
67 | | Cathexis Untethered Abyss
Highlights: Horizon Realm of Mechanical Retribution |
66 | | Gojira Fortitude
Highlights: Into the Storm, Amazonia |
65 | | Phrenelith Chimaera
Highlights: Awakening Titans, Chimaerian Offspring, Pt. 1 |
64 | | Helloween Helloween
Highlights: Fear of the Fallen, Best Time, Out for the Glory |
63 | | 200 Stab Wounds Slave to the Scalpel
Highlights: Skin Milk, Stifling Stew |
62 | | Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities
Highlights: Rogyapa, Erudite Decomposition, Kingdoms Beyond Kallash |
61 | | Evergrey Escape of the Phoenix
Highlights: Eternal Nocturnal, Forever Outsider, Leaden Saints |
60 | | Erdve Savigaila
Highlights: Lavondèmès, Sugretinimas, Betonas |
59 | | Iron Maiden Senjutsu
Highlights: Days of Future Past, The Parchment |
58 | | Craven Idol Forked Tongues
Highlights: Forked Tongues, Deify the Stormgod |
57 | | Bohemyst Čerň a Smrt
Highlights: Krvehlas, Co nelze zapomenout, Do chřtánu smrti |
56 | | Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Highlights: Revolution in Limbo |
55 | | Blindfolded and Led to the Woods Nightmare Withdrawals
Highlights: The White of the Eyes, The Obscured Witness |
54 | | Mefitis Offscourings
Highlights: Sonstead Blight |
53 | | Moral Collapse Moral Collapse
Highlights: Your Stillborn Be Praised, To the Blind, All Things Sudden |
52 | | Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Highlights: Antaresian |
51 | | Apparition Feel
Highlights: Unequilibrium, Perpetually Altered |
50 | | Sulphurous The Black Mouth of Sepulchre
Highlights: Rotting Abomination (The Cleansing) |
49 | | Drawn and Quartered Congregation Pestilence
Highlights: Six Devils (Trepanation) |
48 | | Stormkeep Tales of Othertime
Highlights: The Seer |
47 | | Forhist Forhist
Highlights: I |
46 | | Aenigmatum Deconsecrate
Highlights: Forged from Bedlam |
45 | | Grima Rotten Garden
Highlights: Rotting Garden |
44 | | Humanity's Last Breath Välde
Highlights: Earthless, Dehumanize, Valdet |
43 | | Cult of Luna The Raging River
Highlights: Three Bridges |
42 | | The Monolith Deathcult V3 - Vernedering: Connect the Goddamn Dots
Highlights: Connect the Goddamn Dots, Gone Sour Doomed |
41 | | Ophidian I Desolate
Highlights: Diamonds, Spiral to Oblivion |
40 | | VOLA Witness
Highlights: Straight Lines, These Black Claws, Napalm |
39 | | Korpse (NL) Insufferable Violence
Highlights: Insufferable Violence, Epochs of Melancholy |
38 | | Inoculation Celestial Putridity
Highlights: The Edge of Town, Universal Entropy |
37 | | Horndal Lake Drinker
Highlights: Rossen, Horndal’s Blodbad |
36 | | Diabolizer Khalkedonian Death
Highlights: Dawn of Obliteration, Maelstroms of Abhorrence |
35 | | Diskord Degenerations
Highlights: Abnegations |
34 | | Replicant Malignant Reality
Highlights: Caverns Of Insipid Reflection, Rabid Future, Dressed In Violence |
33 | | Aborted ManiaCult
Highlights: Impetus Odi, Dementophobia, Grotesque |
32 | | Burial (ITA) Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium...
Highlights: Halls of the Formless Unraveler |
31 | | Fractal Generator Macrocosmos
Highlights: Shadows of Infinity, Aeon |
30 | | Alustrium A Monument to Silence
Highlights: This Hollow Ache, A Monument to Silence |
29 | | Inferno (CZ) PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)
Highlights: The Wailing Horizon |
28 | | Thy Catafalque Vadak
Highlights: Köszöntsd a hajnalt, Piros-sárga, Szarvas |
27 | | Witch Vomit Abhorrent Rapture
Highlights: Necrometamorphosis |
26 | | Mastodon Hushed and Grim
Highlights: Teardrinker |
25 | | Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
Highlights: Channeling Impure Apparitions |
24 | | Seth La Morsure du Christ
Highlights: Métal Noir, Sacrifice de Sang |
23 | | The Temple (NZ) The Temple
Highlights: Prophecy Omega, Hell Incarcerate |
22 | | Hyperdontia Hideous Entity
Highlights: Grinding Teeth |
21 | | Sunless Ylem
Highlights: Spiraling into the Unfathomable, The Unraveling of Arcane Past |
20 | | Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Highlights: Sub Specie Aeternitatis |
19 | | Worm Foreverglade
Highlights: Murk Above the Dark Moor, Foreverglade |
18 | | Mortiferum Preserved in Torment
Highlights: Mephitis of Disease |
17 | | Qrixkuor Poison Palinopsia
Highlights: Both tracks |
16 | | Veilburner Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull
Highlights: In the Tomb of Dreaming Limbo, Dissonance in Bloom |
15 | | Portal Avow
Highlights: Catafalque |
14 | | Altarage Succumb
Highlights: Magno Evento |
13 | | Obscura A Valediction
Highlights: Devoured Usurper, Forsaken, Solaris, When Stars Collide |
12 | | Suffering Hour The Cyclic Reckoning
Highlights: Strongholds of Awakening, Transcending Antecedent Visions |
11 | | Flotsam and Jetsam Blood in the Water
Highlights: Blood in the Water, Too Many Lives, Seven Seconds 'til the End of the World |
10 | | Stortregn Impermanence
Highlights: Ghosts of the Past, Nénie |
9 | | 1914 Where Fear And Weapons Meet
Highlights: ...and a Cross Now Marks His Place, Pillars of Fire (The Battle of Messines) |
8 | | Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined
Highlights: Inhuman Harvest, Necrogenic Ressurrection, Bound and Burned |
7 | | Enforced Kill Grid
Highlights: Malignance, Kill Grid, Trespasser |
6 | | Be'lakor Coherence
Highlights: Hidden Window, Valence, Indelible Much More Was Lost |
5 | | Cradle of Filth Existence Is Futile
Highlights: Crawling King Chaos, Necromantic Fantasies, Black Smoke Curling from the Lips of War, The Dying of the Embers |
4 | | Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn
Highlights: Monument, Morgen, Am Rande der Dunkelheit |
3 | | Cryptosis Bionic Swarm
Highlights: Transcendence, Prospect of Immortality, Decypher |
2 | | The Ruins Of Beverast The Thule Grimoires
Highlights: Ropes into Eden, Polar Hiss Hysteria, Deserts to Bind and Defeat |
1 | | Archspire Bleed the Future
Highlights: Golden Mouth of Ruin, Bleed the Future, Drone Corpse Aviator |
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