Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Going through my top 25 favorite metal albums from 2021. Thought this would be fun to revisit some older years' best of lists and discuss albums that have stood the test of time. These albums are all celebrating their 5th anniversary this year.

The albums I discuss today are as follows, in alphabetical order (for the ranked order, you will have to watch the video!):

Aephanemer - A Dream of Wilderness
Alda - A Distant Fire
Ancient Mastery - Chapter 1: Across the Mountains of the Drammarskol
Belore - Artefacts
Blazon Rite - Endless Halls of Golden Totem
Can Bardd - Devoured by the Oak
Cross Vault - As Strangers We Depart
Eternitys End - Embers of Wat
Galaxy - The Shore of Life
Hanternoz - Au fleuve de loire
Helloween - self titled
Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Morgul Blade - Fell Sorcery Abounds
Oxygen Destroyer - Sinister Monstrosities Spawned by the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind
Pharoah - The Powers That Be
Proscriptor McGovern's Apsu - Apsu
Seven Sisters - Shadow of a Fallen Star Pt 1
Seven Spires - Gods of Debauchery
Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
Stormruler - Under the Burning Eclipse
The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide
Ungfell - Es Grauet
Warrior Path - The Mad King