TIME FLIES: 30 ALBUMS THAT TURN 30 IN 2021


Happy New Year and welcome in 2021. May it be better than the last year for every one of us. As long as the metal releases are concerned, 2020 was a tremendous year, but we already know this. 

Now let's get back in time. Today's publication is about proving that time flies, we get old, and the music is forever. In 1991 were released some of the most important albums in the history of metal. In 2021 they turn 30. Damn it! 30 years are quite a long time, ffs! Maybe I should do a similar list of important albums that turn 40 too?...

Let me list (in no order) some of those albums, that are considered as klassiks. The albums that changed the direction of the music, defined the bands' careers, and are still among the most played ones. The albums that are still important for me. I'm sure that everybody knows all the albums and mentions below. Let's remember together the good old times with my top picks that turn 30 in 2021.

METALLICA - Metallica


GUNS'N'ROSES - Use Your Illusion I & II

NIRVANA - Nevermind

SEPULTURA - Arise


DEATH - Human

PESTILENCE - Testimony of the Ancients

MORBID ANGEL - Blessed Are the Sick

ENTOMBED - Clandestine

DISMEMBER - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

GRAVE - Into the Grave

CORONER - Mental Vortex

CANNIBAL CORPSE - Butchered At Birth

CANCER - Death Shall Rise

BOLT THROWER - War Master

BENEDICTION - The Grand Leveller

CARCASS - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
PUNGENT STENCH - Been Caught Buttering

MORGOTH - Cursed

PARADISE LOST - Gothic

CATHEDRAL - Forest of Equilibrium


RUMBLE MILITIA - Stop Violence and Madness


MORDRED - In This Life

MOTORHEAD - 1916

UNLEASHED - Where No Life Dwells

DARKTHRONE - Soulside Journey


OVERKILL - Horrorscope


PEARL JAM - Ten

ATHEIST - Unquestionable Presence
RUNNING WILD - Blazon Stone

NUCLEAR ASSAULT - Out of Order


ASPHYX - The Rack









Here I must definitely mention another two albums that I do love but don't fit the criteria above, and I listened a lot back in the day. Both of huge importance to me. Anthrax - Attack of the Killed B's, and Ramones - Loco live. Both awesome, both still in rotation today.

Of course, many other albums could be added to the list. Let just not forget about the classics released by Type O Negative, Suffocation, Master, Dark Angel, Metal Church, Gorguts, Revenant, Ignorance, Re-Animator, Devastation, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Skid Row and even Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Queen.

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