Top Ten 2021

Finally got around to listening to those Illusory tracks. They are pretty good, I'm going to have to see if I can find the full album to listen too. Do you know anything about their other albums?

I hadn't heard of the band before this album. The first album, The Ivory Tower, is currently only available as a digital release though I've been told a reissue may be in the offing. As for the 2nd album, Polysyllabic, I haven't heard that one either but that will soon change as I found a brand new edition online for short money and it is on its way to me.
 
You'll have to let us know you thoughts on that second album.

Hopefully I'll remember to do that. I will do a review but since it is an older album it will likely be just a brief review rather than a full length one.
 
So here it is mine, lousy year (shopping wise) part pandemic, part the fact that I mostly tend to follow artists I already know. Excessive offer and I don't have the time nor the disposition (much less the money) to follow much new stuff.


Heavy Metal

1. Witchcryer – “When Their Gods Come For You”

2. Wheel - “Preserved In Time”

3. Tentation – “Le Berceau Des Dieux”

4. KK’s Priest – “Sermons Of The Sinner”

5. Crystal Viper – “The Cult”

6. Pharaoh – “The Powers That Be”

7. Septagon – “We Only Die Once”

8. Necronomicon – “The Last Chapter”

9. Paradox – “Heresy II - End Of A Legend”

10.Natur – “Afternoon Nightmare”

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Hard Rock

1. Kruk & Wojtek Cugoski – “Be There”

2. Alice Cooper – “Detroit Stories”

3. Ronnie Atkins – “One Shot”

4. Gus G – “Quantum Leap”

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Progressive Metal/Rock/Jazz

1. Transatlantic – “The Absolute Universe - Forevermore”

2. Hora Prima – “L’Uomo Delle Genti”

3. Cast – “Vigesimus”

4. Canvas Solaris – “Chromosphere”

5. Liquid Tension Experiment – “Liquid Tension Experiment 3”

6. Blackmore’s Night – “Nature’s Light”

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Stuff that didn’t arrived before Dec 31 to be evaluated

· Count Raven – “Sixth Storm”

· Witch Cross – “Angel Of Death”

· Memory Garden – “1349"

· Hour Of 13 – “Black Magick Rites"

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Here is my finished list. I'd like to have included Orange Goblin's re-release of Healing Through Fire but I've never added re-releases, anniversary editions etc before so I don't see why I should I now.
I also don't add cover albums to my list but if I did Lord's Undercovers Vol1 would have been a high rating album because it's bloody good!

My list is split in two groups, if I was forced to make a best of best it would be something like...

1. Flotsam & Jetsam - Blood In the Water
2. Exodus - Persona Non Grata
3. HelloweenHelloween
4. Dropkick Murphys - Turn Up That Dial
5. Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc

But here's the entire list.
Thrash (or something heavier)


1. Flotsam & Jetsam - Blood In the Water
2. Exodus - Persona Non Grata
3. Angelus Apatrida - Angelus Apatrida
4. Bonded - Into Blackness
5. Hidden Intent - Dead End Destiny
6. Evile - Hell Unleashed
7. Septagon - We Only Die Once
8. Effigy Of Madness - As The Page Burns
9. Memoriam - To The End
10. Enforced Killgrid
11. Wreck-Defy - The World Enslaved
12. Nekromantheon - The Visions Of Trismegistos
13. DesecratorSummoning
14. TerrorentialVisions
15. Ravager - The Third Attack
16. Space Chaser - Give Us Life
17. Nervosa - Perpetual Chaos
18. Black Mass - Feast At The Forbidden Tree
19. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
20. Wizardthrone - Hypercube Nerodimensions

Other metal

1. HelloweenHelloween
2. Dropkick Murphys - Turn Up That Dial
3. Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc
4. Iron MaidenSenjutsu
5. Alice CooperDetroit Stories
6. Wraith - Undo The Chains
7. Stoner - Stoners Rule
8. Kenn NardiTrauma
9. Blazon StoneDamnation
10. Cosmic Psychos - Mountain Of Piss
11. Running Wild - Blood On Blood
12. KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
13. Powerwolf - Call Of The Wild
14. Orden Ogan - Final Days
15. Wizard - Metal In my Head
16. Burning Witches - The Witch Of The North
17. Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World