Hi, MetalBite readers! As a bonus to our usual month-end lists, here are the top 20 albums of the Year from our more regular writers. As you'll see below, there was absolutely no consensus between the four of us as to what the best albums this year were. No one album is on more than two top 20 lists.

We've covered a lot of these already via reviews and other album features, so we're not linking to every single one of them in our lists - that would be way too monotonous and taxing. If it's on the list, we think it's good, what else do you need to know? The fact that you're reading this means you know how to use Google, so look something up yourself if you want to hear it. I'm not your mom.

Of course, all these lists are subjective, but don't let that stop you from telling us why our lists suck, are narrow-minded, demonstrate how we are posers who don't know where the good stuff is, how your year-end list is clearly superior… whatever form it takes, your hatred is our fuel.

BENJAMIN'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2021

20. Darkthrone - Eternal Hails…

19. Corr Mhona - Abhainn

18. Necromantia - To The Depths We Descend

17. Severed Boy - Tragic Encounters

16. Mastodon - Hushed And Grim

15. Skepticism - Companion

14. Enforced - Kill Grid

13. Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst

12. Carcass - Torn Arteries

11. Concrete Winds - Nerve Butcherer

10. Thanatomass - Black Vitriol & Iron Fire

9. Sorguinazia - Negation Of Delirium

8. Leprous - Aphelion

7. At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being

6. Obsolete - Animate // Isolate

5. The Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires

4. Thy Catafalque - Vadak

3. Craven Idol - Forked Tongues

2. Lamp Of Murmuur - Submission & Slavery

1. Rivers Of Nihil - The Work

NATE'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2021

20. Altered Dead - Returned To Life

19. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm

18. Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime

17. Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death

16. Spectral Wound - A Diabolical Thirst

15. Ophidian I - Desolate

14. Worm - Foreverglade

13. Dvne - Etemen Aenka

12. Ominous Ruin - Amidst Voices that Echo in Stone

11. Pestilential Shadows - Revenant

10. Passeisme - Eminence

9. Crystal Coffin - The Starway Eternal

8. Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme of Things

7. The Flight of Sleipnir - Eventide

6. Fractal Generator - Macrocosmos

5. Aenigmatum - Deconsecrate

4. Stortregn - Impermanence

3. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning

2. Archspire - Bleed the Future

1. Stone Healer - Conquistador

FELIX'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2021

20. Mortal Vision - Mind Manipulation

19. Myronath - Djevelkraft

18. Meister Leonhardt - Meister Leonhardt

17. Grabak - Scion

16. Czarnobog - Night Of The Uralic Storm

15. The Stone - Kosturnice

14. Malakhim - Theion

13. Trapped In Purgatory - Damned Nation

12. Meuchelmord - Mordmelodien

11. Eisenkult - ...Vom Himmel, Hoch Herab

10. Portrait - At One With None

9. Terrordome - Straight Outta Smogtown

8. Mavorim - Non Omnis Moria

7. Killing - Face the Madness

6. Artillery - X

5. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm

4. Exodus - Persona Non Grata

3. Malum - Devil's Creation

2. Craven Idol - Forked Tongues

1. Malignament - Hypcrisis Absolution

MICHAEL'S TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2021

20. Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum

19. Volbeat - Servant Of The Mind

18. Rhapsody of Fire - Glory For Salvation

17. Sněť - Mokvání V Okovech

16. Inhuman Condition - Rat God

15. Impaled Nazarene - Eight Headed Serpent

14. Memoriam - To The End

13. Vulture Lord - Desecration Rite

12. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm

11. Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors

10. Space Chaser - Give Us Life

9. Nekromantheon - Visions Of Trismegistos

8. Wormwood - Arkivet

7. Exodus - Persona Non Grata

6. Killing - Face The Madness

5. Ravager - The Third Attack

4. Carcass - Torn Arteries

3. Schavot - Galgenbrok

2. Necromantia - To The Depths We Descend…

1. Portrait - At One With None