Metalheads Podcast Top 25 Metal Albums of 2021

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What’s that you say? No patience for sitting through five-plus hours of podcast? You just want the lists already? We hear you. Here they are in all their font-like glory. Our lists from 2021 year-end.

Combined MHP Top 25

25) Crypts of Despair - All Light Swallowed
24) Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
23) Cognos - Cognos
22) Bossk - Migration
21) Baest - Necro Sapiens
20) Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
19) Hands of Despair - The Crimson Boughs and Other Short Tales
18) The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
17) Worm - Forevergladex
16) Noltem - Illusions in the Wake
15) Silver Talon - Decadence and Decay
14) The Crown - Royal Destroyer
13) Wode - Burn in Many Mirrors
12) Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
11) So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
10) Rivers of Nihil - The Work
9) Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
8) Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
7) In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
6) Iotunn - Access All Worlds
5) Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
4) Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
3) Exodus - Persona Non Grata
2) Carcass - Torn Arteries
1) Khemmis - Deceiver

George's Top 25

25) Hate - Rugia
24) Domination Campaign - Onward to Glory
23) Werewolves - What a Time to Be Alive
22) Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
21) Imperialist - Zenith
20) Hands of Despair - The Crimson Boughs and Other Short Tales
19) The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
18) Yoth Iria - As the Flame Withers
17) Baest - Necro Sapiens
16) Borgne - Temps Morts
15) Thulcandra - A Dying Wish
14) Unanimated - Victory in Blood
13) Ancient Wisdom - A Celebration in Honor of Death
12) Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
11) So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing
10) Iotunn - Access All Worlds
9) Tombstoner - Victims of Vile Torture
8) Voices - Breaking the Trauma Bond
7) Fetid Zombie - Transmutations
6) Unto Others - Strength
5) Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
4) Carcass - Torn Arteries
3) Exodus - Persona Non Grata
2) Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
1) Khemmis - Deceiver

Jay'S Top 25

25) Panopticon - ...and Again into the Light
24) Mehenet - Ng'ambu
23) 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
22) Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
21) Skepticism - Companion
20) Dvne - Etemen Ænka
19) The Crown - Royal Destroyer
18) Oryx - Lamenting a Dead World
17) The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
16) Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
15) Sunless - Ylem
14) Bossk - Migration
13) Michael Schenker Group - Immortal
12) Vokonis - Odyssey
11) Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
10) Wode - Burn in Many Mirrors
9) Heavy Sentence - Bang to Rights
8) Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
7) Empyrium - Über den Sternen
6) Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
5) Rivers of Nihil - The Work
4) Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
3) In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil
2) Carcass - Torn Arteries
1) Exodus - Persona Non Grata

Will's Top 25

25) Spectral Wound - A Diabolical Twist
24) Temple of Dread - Hades Unleashed
23) 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
22) Creeping Death - The Edge of Existence
21) Horndal - Lake Drinker
20) Helslave - From the Sulphur Depths
19) Ex Deo - Caligvla
18) Oryx - Lamenting a Dead World
17) Worm - Foreverglade
16) Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality
15) Skepticism - Companion
14) Crescent - Carving the Fires of Akhet
13) Portal of Pazuzu - Portal of Pazuzu
12) Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
11) Baest - Necro Sapiens
10) Fuoco Fatuo - Obsidian Katabasis
9) Akhenaten - The Emerald Tablets of Thoth
8) Genocide Pact - Genocide Pact
7) Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
6) Exodus - Persona Non Grata
5) Carcass - Torn Arteries
4) The Crown - Royal Destroyer
3) Alchemy of Flesh - Ageless Abominations
2) Khemmis - Deceiver
1) Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

John's Top 25

25) Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm
24) Sunless - Ylem
23) Worm - Foreverglade
22) Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
21) Silver Talon - Decadence and Decay
20) Mortiferum - Preserved in Torment
19) Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
18) Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal
17) Existence Void - Anatman
16) Hannes Grossmann - To Where the Light Retreats
15) Cynic - Ascension Codes
14) Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
13) Papangu - Holoceno
12) Moral Collapse - Moral Collapse
11) Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
10) Seeming Emptiness - Bliss Entombed
9) Iotunn - Access All Worlds
8) Khemmis - Deceiver
7) Hands of Despair - The Crimson Boughs and Other Short Tales
6) Cult of Luna - The Raging River
5) Rivers of Nihil - The Work
4) Terra Odium - Ne Plus Ultra
3) Between the Buried and Me - Colors II
2) Cognos - Cognos
1) In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil

Matt's Top 25

25) Mastiff - Leave Me the Ashes of the Earth
24) Der Weg Einger Frieheit - Noktvrn
23) Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
22) Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
21) Withered - Verloren
20) Erdve - Savigaila
19) Sunless - Ylem
18) The Silver - Ward of Roses
17) Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
16) Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
15) Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
14) Bossk - Migration
13) Intonate - Severed Within
12) Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
11) Worm - Foreverglade
10) Noltem - Illusions in the Wake
9) The Lion's Daughter - Skin Show
8) Silver Talon - Decadence and Decay
7) Woman is the Earth - Dust of Forever
6) Esoctrilihum - Dy'th Requiem for the Serpent Telepath
5) Panopticon -)​)​)​and Again into the Light
4) Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
3) Crypts of Despair - All Light Swallowed
2) Khemmis - Living Pyre
1) Carcass - Torn Arteries

Markisan's Top 25

25) Hellish Form - Remains
24) The Crown - Royal Destroyer
23) Ghastly - Mercurial Passages
22) Project Roenwolfe - Edge of Saturn
21) Felled - The Intimate Earth
20) Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum - Šahrartu
19) Silver Talon - Decadence and Decay
18) Рожь - Вечное
17) Lascaille's Shroud - The Gold Flesh of the Sun
16) Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
15) Hadit - With Joy and Ardour Through the Incommensurable Path
14) Glassing - Twin Dream
13) The Silver - Ward of Roses
12) Noltem - Illusions in the Wake
11) Wheel - Preserved in Time
10) Wode - Burn in Many Mirrors
9) Anti-God Hand - Wretch
8) Phrenelith - Chimaera
7) Seven Sisters - Shadow of A Fallen Star, Pt) 1
6) Carcass - Torn Arteries
5) Khemmis - Living Pyre
4) Sepulcros - Vazio
3) Unreqvited - Beautiful Ghosts
2) Iotunn - Access All Worlds
1) So Hideous - None But a Pure Heart Can Sing