MY TOP 20 FOR AUGUST 2021

August started slowly, but it exploded in the end. The past month delivered some great albums, and many of them are going straight into my AOTY list. That's for sure. Others may drown slowly in oblivions. And as I always i put the same question here - how many of them I'll listen to within a year, let's say. How many of them are going to be part of my life in the future and what's their staying power. Only the future (and my personal mood and future experiences will tell)

Moreover, I was able to dig some quality releases in the underground. That's why besides the obvious 20 choices in no particular order, I listed below another 14 absolutely mandatory mentions that are must-listens. I urge you to check everything if you still haven't. Direct links to the albums are available, small comment/description for each release - not. I'm done with reviewing obviously.

ULVER - Live at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Released: 20 August


SPIRIT ADRIFT - Forge Your Future EP
Release Date: 27 August


FLUISTERAARS - Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zieltsontluiking
Release Date: 27 August

HOODED MENACE - The Tritonus Bell
Release date: 27 August

GROZA - The Redemptive End
Release Date: 13 August




QRIXKUOR - Poison Palinopsia
Release Date: 13 August


ÆNIGMATUM - Deconsecrate
Release Date: 13 August

BESATT - Supreme and True at Night
Release Date: 27 August


WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Primordial Arcana
Release Date: 20 August


BONEHUNTER - Dark Blood Reincarnation System
Release Date: 20 August


DECREPISY - Emetic Communion 
Release Date: 6 August


SERPENT COLUMN - Catartisis EP
Release Date: 27 August



WRATH DIVISION - Barbed Wire Veins
Release Date: 21 August

WORMWITCH - Wolf Hex
Release Date: 27 August


VESSEL OF INIQUITY - The Doorway
Release Date: 6 August


DØDSFERD - Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow Part II
Release Date: 10 August


VERIKYYNELEET - Ad Astra
Release Date: 13 August

DEVOID OF THOUGHT - Outer World Graves
Release Date: 27 August


KALMANKANTAJA - Waeltaja 
Release Date: 27 August

DEAFHEAVEN - Infinite Granite
Release Date: 20 August







ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY HONORABLE MENTIONS: 

CRUCIFIXION BELL and ØKSENHOVUD Split - Benighted in the Luminous Glow of Sin
AGRYPNIE - Metamorphosis
GRAVELAND - Hour of Ragnarok
VAELMYST - Secrypts of the Egochasm
AGES OF BLOOD - Vestiges of a Fallen Empire
SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL - Kostolom
KVADRAT/MOEROR/HUMAN SERPENT Split - 
ILD - Fandens Likteskjær
MAHR - Soulmare
WAMPYRIC WINTER - Realms of Spectral Darkness and Eternal Despair
MORBID CRUELTY - Holodomor
DISKORD - Degenerations
WEHMUT - Catharsis
CATHEDRALS AT NIGHT demo

I have more in my notes from the past months and I'm sure I missed writing something here again...



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