Ugg10
Distinguished Member
Ok, so it's New Year's Eve and I thought it would be interesting to get everyone's view on their Top 5 Music of 2021.
This does not necessarily need to be music release in 2021 but music you first heard in 2021 and can be single, album or artist.
Here's my starter for ten (five!) in no particular order.
1) Spiritbox - Eternal Blue. These guys are at the front on the new popular metal movement, this album has everything, stupidy heavy (Holy Roller), thoughtful (Constance) and some real bangers (Yellow Jacket).
2) Rivers of Nihil - The Work. A newish band for me this year and this heavy blackend death metal with a decent amount of variety hit the mark.
3) Mastodon - Hushed and Grim. This is 1hr26min of what Matodon do best: sludgy, progressive groove metal. Maybe a little bloated but still one of their best after Crack the Skye.
4) Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers. I've listened to quite a bit of Doom Metal (Atmospheric or not) this year and this is one of the best. Vocals are extremely good ina dreamy, ethereal way and I find that works so well with the sabbathesque underpinnings.
5) Kauan - Ice Fleet. With only three lines of vocals inthe whole album these guys just know how to paint a landscape with music, in this case the frozen icesspaces of northern Russia where a fleet of ships were found abandaoned for no real reason. A great follow up to Sorni Nai.
Honorable Mentions - Lethian Dreams, Sleep Token, Thy Catafalque, Dordeduh, Outrun the Sunlight, Funeral and 1914 who all produced top class albums this year.
Disappointments this year - OBVIOUSLY THERE BEING NO LIVE MUSIC !!! Also, possibly controversially, I would say Gojira who's album at the start of the year just felt too commercially driven and maybe Jinjer who produced some brilliant singles (Wallflower and Vortex) but the album just did not stack up as a whole.
This does not necessarily need to be music release in 2021 but music you first heard in 2021 and can be single, album or artist.
Here's my starter for ten (five!) in no particular order.
1) Spiritbox - Eternal Blue. These guys are at the front on the new popular metal movement, this album has everything, stupidy heavy (Holy Roller), thoughtful (Constance) and some real bangers (Yellow Jacket).
2) Rivers of Nihil - The Work. A newish band for me this year and this heavy blackend death metal with a decent amount of variety hit the mark.
3) Mastodon - Hushed and Grim. This is 1hr26min of what Matodon do best: sludgy, progressive groove metal. Maybe a little bloated but still one of their best after Crack the Skye.
4) Swallow the Sun - Moonflowers. I've listened to quite a bit of Doom Metal (Atmospheric or not) this year and this is one of the best. Vocals are extremely good ina dreamy, ethereal way and I find that works so well with the sabbathesque underpinnings.
5) Kauan - Ice Fleet. With only three lines of vocals inthe whole album these guys just know how to paint a landscape with music, in this case the frozen icesspaces of northern Russia where a fleet of ships were found abandaoned for no real reason. A great follow up to Sorni Nai.
Honorable Mentions - Lethian Dreams, Sleep Token, Thy Catafalque, Dordeduh, Outrun the Sunlight, Funeral and 1914 who all produced top class albums this year.
Disappointments this year - OBVIOUSLY THERE BEING NO LIVE MUSIC !!! Also, possibly controversially, I would say Gojira who's album at the start of the year just felt too commercially driven and maybe Jinjer who produced some brilliant singles (Wallflower and Vortex) but the album just did not stack up as a whole.
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