| My Top 21 2021 |
| 21 |  | Mogwai As the Love Continues
Post Rock |
| 20 |  | Thrice Horizons/East
Post-Hardcore |
| 19 |  | Portrait (SWE) At One with None
Heavy Metal |
| 18 |  | Delta Sleep Spring Island
Post Hardcore |
| 17 |  | Kayo Dot Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Avant Garde, Synth Wave, Progressive Metal |
| 16 |  | Between the Buried and Me Colors II
Progressive Metal |
| 15 |  | Trophy Scars Astral Pariah
Rock-Blues |
| 14 |  | Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality
Death Metal, Punk |
| 13 |  | Leprous Aphelion
Progressive Rock-Pop |
| 12 |  | Papangu Holoceno
Avant-Garde Metal |
| 11 |  | Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm
Black Metal, Space Metal |
| 10 |  | Ethereal Shroud Trisagion
Progressive Black Metal |
| 9 |  | Sweet Trip A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
Synth Pop, Dream Pop, Electronic |
| 8 |  | 1914 Where Fear and Weapons Meet
Blackened Death-Doom Metal |
| 7 |  | Soen Imperial
Progressive Metal |
| 6 |  | Dvne Etemen Ænka
Progressive Metal Sludge, Post Metal |
| 5 |  | The Night Flight Orchestra Aeromantic II
Synth Wave, Rock |
| 4 |  | Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Avant-Garde Death Metal |
| 3 |  | Lamp of Murmuur Submission and Slavery
Classic Black Metal, Punk |
| 2 |  | Warrior Path The Mad King
Power-Heavy Metal |
| 1 |  | Atvm Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Avant-Garde Death Metal |
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