Best New Music - 2021 edition

karljant said:
... and there's something else I'm really missing. I'll remember later. But these 9 are there for sure.
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Man I'm really getting old... I just forgot about one of the best records ever released within its genre (and the fact I don't listen to that genre that much nowadays is no excuse). :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

MEMORIAM - To The End: Any Bolt Thrower die hard here? If so To The End is as good as absolute classics like The IVth Crusade or Warmaster with a bit more melody. I'm not talking no tall tales... this album is the real deal!
 
srfc said:
Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather, have Killing Machine for years obviously, but wanted the Green Manalishi too
Smith / Kotzen - Smith / Kotzen
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
A Tribute to Judas Priest Vol 1
Sabbat - Dream Weaver
A Tribute to Judas Priest Vol 2
Judas Priest - A Touch of Evil Live
Sabbat - A History of a Time to Come
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Skyclad - Prince of the Poverty Line
Skyclad - Jonah's Ark
Skyclad - Tracks from the Wilderness EP
Smith / Kotzen - Better Days EP
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All great stuff :clap:
 
It seems it will be something like this for my top 10 records of 2021:

10. Radiohead - Kid Amnesia Exhibition
9. Negura Bunget - Zau
8. Hawkwind - Somnia
7. Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
6. Memoriam - To The End
5. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4. Cult Of Luna - The Raging River
3. Devin Townsend - The Puzzle
2. Enslaved - Caravans To The Outer Worlds

And album of the year:

1. Cynic - Ascension Codes
 
karljant said:
It seems it will be something like this for my top 10 records of 2021:

10. Radiohead - Kid Amnesia Exhibition
9. Negura Bunget - Zau
8. Hawkwind - Somnia
7. Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
6. Memoriam - To The End
5. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4. Cult Of Luna - The Raging River
3. Devin Townsend - The Puzzle
2. Enslaved - Caravans To The Outer Worlds

And album of the year:

1. Cynic - Ascension Codes
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I have just tried them all. Maiden aside, it seems we have markedly different tastes. :p

Cynic was probably my favourite of the remainder, though none of them seemed the kind of thing I could loudly sing along to whilst walking the dog...
 
karljant said:
It seems it will be something like this for my top 10 records of 2021:

10. Radiohead - Kid Amnesia Exhibition
9. Negura Bunget - Zau
8. Hawkwind - Somnia
7. Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
6. Memoriam - To The End
5. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4. Cult Of Luna - The Raging River
3. Devin Townsend - The Puzzle
2. Enslaved - Caravans To The Outer Worlds

And album of the year:

1. Cynic - Ascension Codes
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Can’t believe I forgot all about Enslaved! How is the new EP?
 
My Top 3 of 2021:

1. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
2. Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix
3. Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 3

No Dream Theater? Nope!
 
My Top 4:

1. Mastodon - Hushed & Grim
2. Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
3. At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being
4. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Will make a longer list + song mixtape later.
 
As I said days ago I'm going to include my favorite albums of 2021. They're the most enjoyable albums for me.
I've listened over 250 albums released this year in many styles and genres of music. Maybe there are unknown artists for you but I encourage you to dig on these artist and albums, maybe you will like it.
Here I go:


METAL
  1. Senjutsu - Iron Maiden
  2. Blood by Blood - Running Wild
  3. Immortal - Michael Schenker
  4. Hushed and Grim - Mastodon
  5. Escape of the Phoenix - Evergrey
  6. Fortitude - Gojira
  7. The Bitter Truth - Evanescence
  8. Game Over - U.D.O
  9. Parabellum - Yngwie Malmsteen
  10. Omega - Epica
  11. Hermitage - Moonspell
  12. Too Mean To Die - Accept
  13. Unto Others - Strength
  14. Call of the Wild - Powerwolf
  15. In the Court of the Dragon - Trivium
  16. Torn Arteries - Carcass
  17. War Within Me - Blaze Bayley
  18. V - Alcatrazz
  19. Sermons of the Sinner - KK’s Priest
  20. Gods of Tomorrow - Victory

PROG ROCK/METAL
  1. Without Notice - Bend The Future
  2. Somnia - Hawkwind
  3. A View from the Top of the World - Dream Theater
  4. Liquid Crystal - Zombie
  5. Silver Lake - Esa Holopanien
  6. To Touch the Sky - The Emerald Dawn
  7. Skallagrim Into the Breach - Glass Hammer
  8. Nothing but the Truth - The Pineapple Thief
  9. We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal - The Amorphous Androgynous & Peter Hammill
  10. One to Zero - Sylvan
  11. For King and Country - Cyan
  12. A Secret to Hide - Poverty’s No Crime
  13. The Last Three Seconds - Voronoi
  14. The Quest - Yes
  15. Surrender of Silence - Steve Hackett
  16. Moonflowers - Swallow the Sun
  17. Symmetry - Saga
  18. My Book of Answers - Ken Hensley
  19. It’s None of Your Business - Caravan
  20. I dreamed of electric sheeps - PFM

HARD ROCK
  1. Holy Ground - The Dead Daisies
  2. Smith / Kotzen - Smith /Kotzen
  3. When Life was Hard and Fast - Ricky Warwick
  4. Detroit Stories - Alice Cooper
  5. Hardware - Billy F Gibons
  6. Turning to Crime - Deep Purple
  7. All the Right Noises - Thunder
  8. Aeromatic II - The Night Flight Orchestra
  9. Inspirations - Saxon
  10. Phase 2 - The End Machine

BLUES
  1. How Blue Can you Get - Gary Moore
  2. Time Clocks - Joe Bonamassa
  3. Kings - Bernie Marsden
  4. Chess - Bernie Marsden
  5. The Blues Album - Joanne Shaw Taylor

INSTRUMENTAL
  1. Tarrega & Albeniz Guitar Works - Andres Segovia
  2. Under A Mediterranean Sky - Steve Hackett
  3. Road to the Sun - Pat Metheny
  4. Werewolves of Portland - Paul Gilbert
  5. Twas - Paul Gilbert and the Players Club
  6. Quantum Leap - Gus G
  7. Seamless - George Lynch
  8. Harmonic of Nights - Andy Summers
  9. The Last Three Seconds - Voronoi
  10. Ascension Codes - Cynic

POP ROCK
  1. Isa - Zaz
  2. Hi - Texas
  3. The Ultra Vivid Lamment - Manic Street Preachers
  4. The Bridge - Sting
  5. The path of the Clouds - Marissa Nadler
  6. Ocean to Ocean - Tori Amos
  7. Dreamers are Waiting - Crowded House
  8. Milky Way - Sara Jane Ceccarelli
  9. One on One - Paul Carrack
  10. Blue Banisters - Lana del Rey

JAZZ
  1. After Dark - Amanda Whiting
  2. Road to the Sun - Pat Metheny
  3. Meditations on the Tarot - John Zorn
  4. Juniper - Linda Fredriksson
  5. Cosmos - Johanna Klein Quartet
  6. Luna ’68 - The City Champs
  7. Reciprocity - Maria Grand
  8. Kailedoscope - Sarah Wilson
  9. Archiotic - Fabiana Straffer
  10. Arrival of the New Elders - Elephant9

VOCAL JAZZ
  1. Petite - Charlotte Planchou
  2. Acoustic Album No. 8 - Katie Melua
  3. Vapour - Germana La Sorsa
  4. More or Less - Melorie Jane
  5. Breathe - Karmen Roivassepp Quartet
  6. The Show Must Go On - Johanna Pettersson
  7. Songs from Other Places - Stacy Kent
  8. Dream Away - Lauren Bush
  9. Houses - Silje Nergaard
  10. Beyond Other Stories - Grete Skarpied

AMBIENT
  1. Juno to Jupiter - Vangelis
  2. Probe 6-8 - Tangerine Dream
  3. Amazonia - Jean Michelle Jarre
  4. Leviathan - The Grid /Fripp
  5. Snuggles - Devin Townsend

CLASSICAL
  1. Atlas of Imaginary Places - Marina Baranova
  2. Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 - London Symphony Orchestra
  3. Tarrega & Albeniz Guitar Works - Andrés Segovia
  4. Piazzolla Gnattali Pujol Lavia - Fabio Bussola
  5. The Viennese Viola - Emma Wernig
  6. Vivaldi - Lost Concertos for Anna Maria - Federico Maria Sardelli
  7. Legends - Coline Jaget
  8. Camino - Sean Shibe
  9. Die Fremde - Hannah Koob
  10. Nielsen, Verhey & Francaix- Flute Concertos - Josephine Olech

EPs
  1. Better Days - Smith / Kotzen
  2. Argent Moon - Insomnium
  3. Raging River - Cult of Luna
  4. Change the World - Ringo Starr
  5. Zoom In - Ringo Starr
  6. Bombenhagel - Sodom
  7. Roxane Effasci - Arabesque
  8. Yes, I Have Ghosts - David Gilmour
  9. Omegacoustic - Epica
  10. Deliver Us From Evil - Blind Guardian

LIVE ALBUMS
  1. Evil or Divine. Live in New York City - Dio
  2. with Friends at St. David - Marillion
  3. The Löst Tapes, Vol. 1 - Live in Madrid - Motörhead
  4. The Journey Continues - Djabe & Steve Hackett
  5. Black Cat Blues - Johnny Winter
  6. Point of No Return Live & Beyond - Kansas
  7. Side Eye NYC V1.IV - Pat Metheny
  8. Music is our Friend - King Crimson
  9. Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2020 - Bryan Ferry
  10. From California to Kawasaki - Wishbone Ash
  11. The Never-ending Show - Live in Netherlands - Allan Parsons
  12. Live at Knewborth 1990 - Pink Floyd
  13. Holy Diver Live - Dio
  14. 50 years Anthology Live - Renaissence
  15. The Lost Concert - Miles Davis
  16. Omega Alive - Epica
  17. At Blue Note Tokyo - Steve Gadd Band
  18. The Löst Tapes, Vol. 2 Live in Norwich 1998 - Motörhead
  19. Symbol of Salvation - Armored Saint
  20. …Sounds like Swiss - Nektar

COMPILATIONS
  1. Everything Louder than Forever. The Very Best of - Motörhead
  2. Reflections. 50 Years of Heavy Metal Music - Judas Priest
  3. Riverside 20. The Shorts & The Longs - Riverside.
  4. Under the Guillotine - Kreator
  5. The Best of Saga. All Hits since 1978 - Saga
  6. Dance of the Black Tattoo - Magnum
  7. Past Present Future - The Best of - Maggie Reilly
  8. Greatest Hits - Dido
  9. The Last Domino - Genesis
  10. The Best of Peter Bank’s Harmony in Diversity - Peter Banks

REISSUES / REMASTERS / BOX SETS
  1. A (La Mode) [The 40th Anniversary Edition] - Jethro Tull
  2. Fugazi (Deluxe Edition) - Marillion
  3. Evil or Divine. Live in New York City (Reissue) - Dio
  4. No Sleep ’til Hammersmith 40th Anniversary - Motörhead
  5. The Visit. The Highlights of the Definitive Edition - Loreena McKennitt
  6. Benefit (The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition) - Jethro Tull
  7. Technical Ecstasy (Deluxe Edition) - Black Sabbath
  8. Sabotage (Deluxe Edition) - Black Sabbath
  9. The Mob Rules (Deluxe Edition) - Black Sabbath
  10. First Album revisited (Deluxe Edition) - Djabe


That's all folks. The challenge for 2022 is to listen one new release a day and post the best ones each week in
the Best New Music - 2022 edition thread. I hope you include your best ones too of course.

I wish you a healthy new year for everyone​
 
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MindRuler said:
Did you buy all those albums, @The_7th_one ? Impressive lists.
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No I don't. I 've bought just a few ones. The most of them are mp3 downloaded albums & Spotify/Itunes music… :)
First of all I listening the albums on Spotify/itunes …or downloads. If there's an album that I like a lot I buy it or if it's about an album for my Top 3 or 5 favorite bands. I order them with no regrets.
 
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If I was buy the Deluxe Edition of Black Sabbath's Vol. 4 I would regret forever. It contains supernaut 10 or more times. Kind of shit.
 
The_7th_one said:
METAL
  1. Senjutsu - Iron Maiden
  2. Blood by Blood - Running Wild
  3. The Bitter Truth - Evanescence
  4. Game Over - U.D.O
  5. Omega - Epica
  6. Too Mean To Die - Accept
  7. Call of the Wild - Powerwolf
  8. War Within Me - Blaze Bayley
  9. V - Alcatrazz
  10. Gods of Tomorrow - Victory

HARD ROCK
  1. Smith / Kotzen - Smith / Kotzen
  2. When Life was Hard and Fast - Ricky Warwick
  3. Detroit Stories - Alice Cooper
  4. Turning to Crime - Deep Purple
  5. All the Right Noises - Thunder
  6. Aeromantic II - The Night Flight Orchestra
  7. Inspirations - Saxon
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Done a first pass of your list of the singles from the two main genres I listen to. The quoted albums are the ones I will be investigating further; the ones recoloured blue I had already listened to.
 
My top 10 albums of 2021

1. Iron Maiden- Senjutsu (heavy metal)
2. Dream Theater - A View from the Top of the World (prog metal)
3. Helloween - Helloween (power metal)
4. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation (punk rock, melodic hardcore)
5. The Offspring - Let the Bad Times Roll (punk rock, pop punk)
6. Beast in Black - Dark Connection (power metal, arena rock)
7. Powerwolf - Call of the Wild (power metal)
8. Exodus - Persona non Grata (thrash metal)
9. Smith/Kotzen - Smith/Kotzen (hard rock)
10. Leprous - Aphelion (prog rock, art rock)

Honorable mentions:

Royal Blood - Typhoons (indie rock, alt rock)
Running Wild - Blood on Blood (heavy metal)
KK's Priest - Sermons of the Sinner (heavy metal)
Rhapsody of Fire - Glory for Salvation (symphonic power metal)
Volbeat - Servant of the Mind (hard rock)

Nominees for the best metal song:

Powerwolf - Glaubenskraft
Helloween - Best Time
Beast in Black - Moonlight Rendezvous
Between the Buried and Me - Human Is Hell (Another One With Love)
Iron Maiden - Hell on Earth (winner)

Nominees for the best rock song

Royal Blood - Boilermaker
Smith/Kotzen - Til Tomorrow
The Offspring - Army of One
Rise Against- Middle of a Dream
Leprous - Castaway Angels (winner)

Guitar solo of the year

Adrian Smith - Darkest Hour

Best production/mixing

Andy Sneap and John Petrucci - A View From the Top of the World

Nominees for the best vocal performance of the year (album)

Yannis Papadopoulos: Beast in Black - Dark Connection
Attila Dorn: Powerwolf - Call of the Wild
Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
Michael Kiske: Helloween - Helloween
Tim McIlrath: Rise Against - Nowhere Generation (winner)

Nominees for the best vocal performance in a single song

Tim McIlrath: Rise Against - Forfeit
Michael Kiske: Helloween - Best Time
Attila Dorn: Powerwolf - Alive or Undead
Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden - Hell On Earth
Einar Solberg: Leprous - Castaway Angels (winner)

Nominees for the lyricist of the year

Tim McIlrath (winner)
Gary Holt
Steve Harris
Bruce Dickinson

Nominees for the songwriter of the year

Andi Deris
Adrian Smith
Gary Holt
Anton Kabanen
Steve Harris (winner)

Album artwork of the year

Eliran Kantor: Helloween - Helloween
 
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