Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2021

Published: November 18, 2021 14:00 Source

# 1

Torn Arteries by Carcass

Album • Sep 17 / 2021 Melodic Death Metal

# 2

Deceiver by Khemmis

Album • Nov 19 / 2021 Epic Doom Metal

# 3

Where the Gloom Becomes Sound by Tribulation

Album • Jan 29 / 2021 Gothic Metal

# 4

Feel by Apparition

Album • Oct 22 / 2021 Death Metal Death Doom Metal

# 5

...And Again Into the Light by Panopticon

Album • May 15 / 2021 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 6

The Tritonus Bell by Hooded Menace

Album • Aug 27 / 2021 Death Doom Metal

# 7

Bloodmoon: I by Converge + Chelsea Wolfe

Album • Nov 19 / 2021 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Gothic Metal

# 8

Submission And Slavery by Lamp of Murmuur

Album • Sep 16 / 2021 Black Metal

# 9

Senjutsu by Iron Maiden

Album • Sep 03 / 2021 Heavy Metal

# 10

Primordial Arcana by Wolves in the Throne Room

Album • Aug 20 / 2021 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 11

Year of the Horse (Act Three) by Fucked Up

Album • May 28 / 2021 Post-Hardcore Rock Opera Art Rock

# 12

Companion by Skepticism

Album • Sep 24 / 2021 Funeral Doom Metal

# 13

Ward of Roses by The Silver

Album • Oct 15 / 2021 Progressive Metal Black Metal

# 14

SINNER GET READY by Lingua Ignota

Album • Aug 06 / 2021 Neoclassical Darkwave Avant-Folk

# 15

De Doorn by AMENRA

Album • Jun 25 / 2021 Atmospheric Sludge Metal

# 16

Excretion of Mortality by Cerebral Rot

Album • Jun 25 / 2021 Death Metal

# 17

Garden of Burning Apparitions by Full of Hell

Album • Oct 01 / 2021 Deathgrind

# 18

Strength by Unto Others

Album • Sep 24 / 2021 Heavy Metal Gothic Metal

# 19

Foreverglade by Worm

Album • Oct 22 / 2021 Death Doom Metal

# 20

Violence Unimagined by Cannibal Corpse

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Death Metal

# 21

An Unexpected Reality by Gatecreeper

EP • Jan 13 / 2021 Death Doom Metal Death Metal

# 22

Dream Weapon by Genghis Tron

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Math Rock Progressive Metal

# 23

Tales of Othertime by Stormkeep

Album • Nov 19 / 2021 Melodic Black Metal

# 24

Great War by Rudimentary Peni

EP • Apr 23 / 2021 Deathrock Hardcore Punk

# 25

Infinite Granite by Deafheaven

Album • Aug 20 / 2021 Shoegaze

# 26

Forked Tongues by Craven Idol

Album • Jul 23 / 2021 Black Metal Thrash Metal

# 27

Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry by Hulder

Album • Jan 22 / 2021 Black Metal

# 28

Persona Non Grata by Exodus

Album • Nov 19 / 2021 Thrash Metal

# 29

World of Sorrows by Dungeon Serpent

EP • Jul 16 / 2021 Melodic Death Metal

# 30

Bleed the Future by Archspire

Album • Oct 29 / 2021 Technical Death Metal

# 31

Interstice by Knoll

Album • Feb 26 / 2021 Grindcore

# 32

Kill Grid by Enforced

Album • Mar 12 / 2021 Thrash Metal

# 33

The Thule Grimoires by The Ruins Of Beverast

Album • Feb 05 / 2021 Atmospheric Black Metal Doom Metal

# 34

A Diabolic Thirst by Spectral Wound

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Black Metal

# 35

Decadence and Decay by Silver Talon

Album • May 28 / 2021 Progressive Metal Heavy Metal

# 36

Solar Paroxysm by Mare Cognitum

Album • Mar 27 / 2021 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 37

Crypt of Ice by Frozen Soul

Album • Nov 13 / 2020 Death Metal

# 38

Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth by Body Void

Album • Apr 23 / 2021 Sludge Metal Doom Metal

# 39

Eternal Hails...... by Darkthrone

Album • Jun 25 / 2021 Doom Metal Heavy Metal

# 40

The Work by Rivers of Nihil

Album • Sep 24 / 2021 Progressive Metal