ninehertz Albums of the Year 2021 - Top 50

Tue 7th December 2021

/incoming/aoty2021.jpg The end of the year which we hoped would be a recovery toward the old ideas of normality, and yet here we are again wondering whether we'll be locked down for Christmas, a populous unsure of the regulations, still tentatively feeling our way back into what little social life available to us if at all.

And yet despite all that, despite conditions inhospitable to creativity and inaccessibility to gigs and practice rooms, 2021 still has delivered with an amazing treasure horde of metal releases. Adversity is often a boon to the creative process I suppose.

Our weekly podcast has been a thrill to curate each week, and difficult too to limit to just 9 new tracks which says everything.

So here we are, our Top 50 albums (or to be more precise releases), a combination of Pete and Mike's favourites.

There's no order other than alphabetical (its difficult enough getting this down to 50), there's no description (we'll record a pod to talk over our top 10 soon) - just a long list of inspiring, spine tingling extreme music perfection.

Aerosol Jesus - Survival

Atvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Bedtimemagic - Between the Sheets

Black Noia - Blacknoia

Blackwater Holylight - Silence/Motion

Bloody Head - The Temple Pillars Dissolve Into The Clouds

Bloody Keep - Bloody Horror

The Body - I’ve Seen All I Need To See

Body Void - Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth

Bongzilla - Weedsconsin

Caina - Take Me Away From All This Death

Cult of Occult - Ruin