2021 - The Year In Black Metal

Sonny
Sonny
The Fallen The Horde The North The Pit
First Post August 24, 2021 09:16 PM
Post #7787

So 2021 is two-thirds done and I thought I'd submit an interim black metal list of my top ten of the year so far and see what stacks up by year's end. The biggest climber in my affections since it's release is probably Kanonenfieber's Menschenmühle which has steadily risen up my personal chart to be currently sitting at number 3.

1. Panopticon - ...and Again Into the Light

2. Les Chants de Nihil - Le tyran et l'esthète

3. Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

4. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm

5. The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires

6. Yith - Passage

7. Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War

8. Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana

9. Old Forest - Mournfall

10. Spectral Lore - Ετερόφωτος


Xephyr
Xephyr
The Guardians The Infinite The North
August 24, 2021 11:35 PM
Post #7793
I'll toss mine in so far, the Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa album kind of feels like cheating but it's still got some Black Metal hidden in there somewhere. Esoctrilihum was a real letdown for me this year, to the point where it'll probably be bumped down off of this list very quickly.

  1. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
  2. Forhist - Forhist
  3. Panopticon - ...And Again Into the Light
  4. Les Chants de Nihil - Le tyran et l'esthète
  5. Auld Ridge - Consanguineous Tales of Bloodshed and Treachery
  6. Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - Corrupted Pillars of Vanity
  7. Grima - Rotten Garden
  8. Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
  9. The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
  10. Old Nick - A New Generation of Vampiric Conspiracies
UnhinderedbyTalent
UnhinderedbyTalent
The Fallen The Horde The North The Pit
August 25, 2021 06:52 PM
Post #7794

Unusually for me, I have listened to more than 3 records from the current year, although I still have a shit ton of stuff from this year that I will discover in 2024 and beyond I am sure.  Not got around to new Panopticon, WITTR, Spectral Lore or Grima.  That Nattverd is under threat along with Ungfell. I still have new output to get to from Leipa (the guy out of Kanonenfieber's more black metal than blackened death metal project), Wormwood, Odal and Ildaruni.

1. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm

2. Felled - The Intimate Earth

3. Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

4. Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst

5. Mork - Katedralen

6. Yith - Passage

7. Fuath - ii

8. Les Chants de Nihil - Le tyran et l'esthète

9. Nattverd - Vandring

10. Ungfell - Es grauet


Xephyr
Xephyr
The Guardians The Infinite The North
August 26, 2021 08:24 PM
Post #7796

I knew I forgot something, so Esoctrilihum's days were extremely numbered. Auld Ridge has a fantastic album out that could go even higher since I have to revisit it again.