Best Metal Music of 2021

Lorna Shore - And I Return To Nothingness

Gojira - Fortitude

Mastodon - Hushed & Grim

Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality

Rivers of Nihil - The Work

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

Obscura - A Valediction

Archspire - Bleed The Future

Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell

Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality

Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

Devin Townsend - The Puzzle & Snuggles

Jinger - Wallflowers

Ministry - Moral Hygiene

Carcass - Torn Arteries

Bongzilla - Weedsconsin

Four Stroke Baron - Classics 

Krallice - Demonic Wealth

AEnigmatum - Deconsecrate

The Absence - Coffinized

Heavy Sentence - Bang To Rights

Worm - Foreverglade

Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood

Slaughter to Prevail - Kostolom

Succumb - XXI

Heavy Sentence - Bang to Rights

Vomit The Soul - Cold

Lucifer's Fall - III: From The Deep

Mega Colossus - Riptime

Bewitcher - Satanic Magick Attack

Warrior Path - The Mad King

Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike

Bummer - Dead Horse

ATVM - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Crypta - Echoes of the Soul

Lucifer - Lucifer IV

Alien Weaponry - Tangora

Cynic - Ascension Codes

Harakiri For The Sky - Maere

Inferi - Vile Genesis

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Soen - Imperial

1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet

Ministry

Ministry April 15, 2019 Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

The Missing
Deity
Stigmata
Jesus Built My Hotrod
Just One Fix
N.W.O.
Thieves
Burning Inside
So What
No Devotion
Supernaut
The Land of Rape and Honey
(Everyday Is) Halloween

Best Metal Albums 2018

Jesus Piece - Only Self
Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
Harakiri For The Sky - Arson
High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Sleep - The Sciences
Tribulation - Down Below
Ministry - AmericaKKKant
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
Horrendous - Idol
Windhand - Eternal Return
Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness
Amorphis - Queen Of Time
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Between The Buried And Me - Automata I, Automata II
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Nekrogoblikon - Welcome To Bonkers
Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous Worship Of Rapture And Response
Tomb Mold - Manner Of Infinite Forms
Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot
Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind Of Horror
Gorod - Aethra
Ghost - Prequelle