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Heavy Blog Staff’s Top 25 Albums of 2021

We may have taken a different approach to our AOTY coverage this year, but we still wanted to share what everyone on staff thought were the best releases of 2021!

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We may have taken a different approach to our AOTY coverage this year, but we still wanted to share what everyone on staff thought were the best releases of 2021! Comment with your own list, albums you discovered/enjoyed on our lists, and records we should check out.

Jonathan Adams

Joe Astill

Trent Bos

Josh Bulleid

  1. Between the Buried and Me – Colors II
  2. Every Time I Die – Radical
  3. Panopticon – …And Again into the Light
  4. Fucked Up – Year of the Horse
  5. Moon Unit – Differences in Language and Lifestyle
  6. Dvne – Etemen Ænka
  7. Employed to Serve – Conquering
  8. Frontierer – Oxidized
  9. Don Broco – Amazing Things
  10. Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings and My Dresses
  11. Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark
  12. Archspire – Bleed the Future
  13. Urne – Serpent & Spirit
  14. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim
  15. Brand of Sacrifice – Lifeblood
  16. Green Lung – Black Harvest
  17. Cry – 壱 [One]
  18. Converge – Bloodmoon: I
  19. Vorvaň – Awakening
  20. Bad Wolves – Dear Monsters
  21. Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed
  22. Trillionaire – Romulus
  23. Gost – Rites of Love and Reverence
  24. Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm
  25. Lordi – Humanimals

Nick Cusworth

Cody Dilullo

  1. Archspire – Bleed the Future
  2. BROCKHAMPTON – ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
  3. Dying Wish – Fragments of a Bitter Memory
  4. Ophidian I – Desolate
  5. Abstract Void – Wishdream
  6. Born of Osiris – Angel or Alien
  7. cleopatrick – bummer
  8. Hacktivist – Hyperdialect
  9. Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana
  10. Frontierer – Oxidized
  11. Lil Nas X – Montero
  12. Trivium – In the Court of the Dragon
  13. Taylor Swift – Evermore
  14. Structures – None of the Above
  15. Left to Suffer – On Death
  16. Celestial Swarm – Gateways to the Necroverse
  17. Atræ Bilis – Apexapien
  18. Waking the Cadaver – Authority Through Intimidation
  19. Planetkiller – Fraudulent
  20. Evanescence – The Bitter Truth
  21. Limp Bizkit – Still Sucks
  22. City Girl – C-Girl
  23. Vomit the Soul – Cold
  24. God’s Hate – God’s Hate
  25. Spiritbox – Eternal Blue

Karlo Doroc

Calder Dougherty

  1. Humanity’s Last Breath – Välde
  2. LLNN – Unmaker
  3. Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak – An Evening With Silk Sonic
  4. black midi – Cavalcade
  5. Spiritbox – Eternal Blue
  6. Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life
  7. Fawn Limbs – Darwin Falls
  8. Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Nightmare Withdrawals
  9. Dreamwell – Modern Grotesque
  10. Civerous – Decrepit Flesh Relic
  11. Limp Bizkit – STILL SUCKS
  12. Sleep Token – This Place Will Become Your Tomb
  13. Whitechapel – Kin
  14. Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime
  15. Sermon of Flames – I Have Seen the Light, and It Was Repulsive
  16. Archspire – Bleed the Future
  17. Knoll – Interstice
  18. Dessiderium – Aria
  19. Luo – Convoluted Mess Machine
  20. Throne – Pestilent Dawn
  21. BADBADNOTGOOD – Talk Memory
  22. Born of Osiris – Angel or Alien
  23. Moral Collapse – Moral Collapse
  24. Wanderer – Liberation From A Brutalist Existence
  25. Portico Quartet – Monument

Simon Handmaker

Ahmed Hasan

Bridget Hughes

Jordan Jerabek

  1. The Armed – ULTRAPOP
  2. Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
  3. Terminus – The Silent Bell Toll
  4. Steel Bearing Hand – Slay In Hell
  5. Bríi – Sem Propósito
  6. ÂGE ⱡ TOTAL – ÂGE ⱡ TOTAL
  7. Every Time I Die – Radical
  8. Succumb – XXI
  9. Unto Others – Strength
  10. Ophidian I – Desolate
  11. Quicksand – Distand Populations
  12. Dream Unending – Tide Turns Eternal
  13. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – A Cult That Worships A God Of Death
  14. Trophy Scars – Astral Pariah
  15. BRUIT ≤ – The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again
  16. Lantlôs – Wildhund
  17. Body Void – Bury Me Beneath this Rotting Earth
  18. Wanderer – Liberation from a Brutalist Existence
  19. CHVRCHES – Screen Violence
  20. Dust Moth – Rising//Sailing
  21. Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – The Magnetic Ridge
  22. FACS – Present Tense
  23. Part Chimp – Drool
  24. Sallow Moth – Stasis Cocoon
  25. Sunless – Ylem

Eden Kupermintz

Scott Murphy

Noyan

Jimmy Rowe

  1. Frontierer – Oxidized
  2. Pupil Slicer – Mirrors
  3. The Armed – ULTRAPOP
  4. Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
  5. Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon
  6. Bo Burnham – Inside (The Songs)
  7. Limp Bizkit – STILL SUCKS
  8. Dream Unending – Tide Turns Eternal
  9. Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Nightmare Withdrawals
  10. Ad Nauseam – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
  11. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
  12. Stortregn – Impermenance
  13. Chevelle – NIRATIAS
  14. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite
  15. Defacement – Defacement
  16. Silk Sonic – An Evening With Silk Sonic
  17. Abominable Putridity – Parasitic Metamorphosis Manifestation
  18. Plebeian Grandstand – Rien ne suffit
  19. Yautja – The Lurch
  20. Glassing – Twin Dream
  21. First Fragment – Gloire Éternelle
  22. Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions
  23. Portrayal of Guilt – We Are Always Alone
  24. Humanity’s Last Breath – Välde
  25. Worm – Foreverglade

Pete Williams

  1. Panopticon – …And Again Into the Light
  2. Fierce Deity – Power Wisdom Courage
  3. Crystal Coffin – The Starway Eternal
  4. Dream Unending – Tide Turns Eternal
  5. Khemmis – Deceiver
  6. Five the Hierophant – Through Aureate Void
  7. Archspire – Bleed the Future
  8. Oryx – Lamenting a Dying World
  9. Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions
  10. Woman is the Earth – Dust of Forever
  11. Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning
  12. Stormkeep – Tales of Othertime
  13. MØL – Diorama
  14. Vouna – Atropos
  15. Steel Bearing Hand – Slay in Hell
  16. Doctor Smoke – Dreamers and the Dead
  17. Abstract Void – Wishdream
  18. Noltem – Illusions in the Wake
  19. Rivers of Nihil – The Work
  20. Fear Factory – Aggression Continuum
  21. Vokonis – Odyssey
  22. Oxygen Destroyer – Sinister Monstrosities Spawned By the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind
  23. Terminus – The Silent Bell Toll
  24. Green Lung – Black Harvest
  25. Gatecreeper – An Unexpected Reality

David Zeidler

  1. Pinegrove – Amperland, NY
  2. Panopticon – …And Again Into The Light
  3. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die – Illusory Walls
  4. Dreamwell – Modern Grotesque
  5. Every Time I Die – Radical
  6. So Hideous – None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
  7. sonhos tomam conta – hypnagogia
  8. PUPIL SLICER – Mirrors
  9. One Step Closer – This Place You Know
  10. SeeYouSpaceCowboy – The Romance Of Affliction
  11. BRUIT ≤ – The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again
  12. Mogwai – As The Love Continues
  13. Glassing – Twin Dream
  14. Dust Moth – Rising // Sailing
  15. BLAK – El Tall d’Escil·la
  16. Trna – Istok
  17. CIVILIA – Past Lives
  18. Shy, Low – Snake Behind The Sun
  19. Ranges – Cardinal Winds
  20. Death Stare – Haze
  21. soup – Visions
  22. Vientre – Estado de Imago
  23. Blankenberge – Everything
  24. Raccoon City – For Nobody, Nowhere
  25. Manchester Orchestra – The Million Masks of God
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