And my number one-my album of the year overall, even-was The Armed’s ULTRAPOP, a record that scans to me as a masterpiece of heavy music, but one that seems to exist in its own peculiar space.
That doesn’t mean I won’t go back to the old system next year, but for this year, a hierarchy didn’t make sense with a collection of traditional folk songs at number two. Two of the best bands going right now teamed up to make a folk record, greater melodic elements crept into a number of incredible albums this year, and more than a few bands dared to provoke the schisms between those who want to see heavy music evolve and those who’d prefer to stay in one lane.įor this reason, I’ve decided not to rank my favorite metal albums this year. But even in the midst of this continually more complicated to navigate present, music has remained a source of inspiration and comfort, something that offers promise and hope and, above all, catharsis.īut music itself was pretty weird too, you know? Nowhere was this more apparent for me than in metal this year, which had plenty of expectedly great entries in death metal, doom metal, black metal and hardcore, but at its best went in some truly odd directions. A series of fits and starts to attempt to get back to a normal we might never see again, in the midst of a global pandemic that’s still here. I don’t think there’s any disagreement about it: 2021 has been a very weird year.
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