Lamp Of Murmuur – Submission And Slavery. 
Korpituli – The Ancient Spells Of The Past. 
Arazubak – The Haunted Spawn Of Torment. Archgoat – Worship The Eternal Darkness. Labyrinthine Haze – Descending Into The Deep. Weathered Crest – Blossoming Of The Paths. Support the artists, buy physical copies… aside from that, onwards, ever onwards, forging into the sunset. As always, eternal thanks and respect to all artists, labels, reviewers and promoters for keeping the black flame alive. If you somehow need even more from my curation of superb stygian artistry, seek help, but also feel free to check out my already published TOP 30 DEMOS/EPs and TOP 25 SPLITS lists as well (and scope Tom and Gos ‘s lists while you’re at it, they both have impeccable taste). Also included are a handful of near misses that I really wanted to make the cut but couldn’t cram in – be sure to hunt them down as well, all of them deserved a spot on the final list. YOUTUBE NOX ARCHAIST SHATTERED SWORD FULL
Here I present my 40 favourite full length albums of the thousand-plus I listened to and the couple hundred I shortlisted, a final curation that’s a damn sight slimmer than last year’s overblown top 100 but hey, I’m trying to reign myself in and practice a little restraint. Pretty sure I’m the last person anywhere on the planet to publish their albums list each year, but anyway – there were over ten thousand black metal releases vomited forth into the void of rampant consumerism and discogs flipping (or unnoticed and abandoned Bandcamp limbo) throughout 2021.
Not with a whimper, but with a fucking BANG – okay fine, a dull thud at this point, we’re already at least one knuckle deep into 2022 – our long drawn out 2021 LISTCRUSH series finally comes to an end.
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