2021 - What Did You Miss?

It's starting to become that time of year-end lists for the people that keep up with new releases, and also time for most of us to try and remotely remember what half the albums we checked out on a whim sounded like. I know I always have to go back to a ton of albums that I may have not given enough time, and with so much new music being released every week a lot of albums slip through the cracks, so what are some of your lesser known picks that others may have skipped over this year? 

• Herzel - Le dernier rampart
• Ravenous - Hubris
• Altesia - Embryo
• Untamed Land - Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms
• Dola - Czasy
• Epiphanic Truth - Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms to a Sordid Species
• Ulthima - Symphony of the Night
• Turbulence - Frontal
• Djevel - Tanker som rir natten

I'm always catching up with new releases from the bands I listen to, but I've been so busy the past couple weeks that I haven't had the chance to catch up with a few new albums, so here they are, to finally be caught up this weekend:

Bad Wolves - Dear Monsters (slight return to listening to that band for this album)

Mastodon - Hushed and Grim

Running Wild - Blood on Blood

Bullet for My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine

Silent Planet - Iridescent (self-recommendation)

And several more albums to get a few more weeks from now:

Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Cynic - Ascension Codes (slight return to listening to that band for this album)

In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil (slight return to listening to that band for this album)

Rhapsody of Fire - Glory for Salvation (slight return to listening to that band for this album)

Devin Townsend - The Puzzle/Snuggles