My 15 favourite metal released in 2021

Here are my favourite metal releases in 2021 (happens to be mostly death metal and hardcore and a bit of sludge this time). Alphabetical order. Click on the name to go to the review.

 

Altarage - Succumb

 

Antediluvian - The Divine Punishment

 

Botanist / Thief - EP0 Cicatric - Diamond Brush

 

Eyehategod - A History of Nomadic Bahavior

 

Fange - Pantocrator

  

FLUIDS - Not Dark Yet

 

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

 

Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment

 

Obscura - A Valediction

 

Ophidian I - Desolate

 

Portal - Avow

 

Sanguisugabogg - Tortured Whole

 

Section H8 - Welcome to the Nightmare

  

Terminal Bliss - Brute Err/atta!

 

USA/MEXICO - Del Rio

 

 

Altarage - Succumb (2021)

Another great album from Altarage, maybe not as good as the previous one (the songs are less memorable), but still likely to make it to my "best of death metal" in the end of the year. They stil sound like somewhere between modern bands like Ulcerate/Portal and Morbid Angel (especially the atmosphere of crawling heaviness of the Gateway album), but went a step further into death/doom territory, culminating in a drone/doom long track in the end. They also included a bit of noise/industrial sound, which works well within their music. 

The Bandcamp page.

 

 

My 7 favourites death metal albums in 2019

Here are my seven favourites death metal albums for 2019.
Follow the link to read the review (and there you'll find a Bandcamp link nearly every time).
I give it in alphabetical order.

Altarage - The Approaching Roar

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race

Deiphago - I, The Devil

Desecravity - Anathema

Hideous Divinity - Simulacrum

Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation

Unaussprechlichen kulten - Teufelsbücher

 

Altarage - The Approaching Roar (2019)

The Approaching Roar is the third album from Spanish band Altarage. They say they play "Chaotic Death Metal / Blasting Doom" and that's not a bad description. Maybe it's a bit less chaotic and a bit more doom (although it's definitely more death metal than doom, but of a super heavy kind that likes slow crushing in between blast beats parts) than their previous albums. Anyhow, it evokes a huge crawling lovecraftian horror, it's super massive heavy and menacing sounding. Really good stuff.

The Bandcamp page.