MY TOP 20 FOR OCTOBER 2021

There are months and there are months like October 2021 when 400+ new releases dropped by. I personally shortlisted 61 (sixty-one) albums in order to prepare my monthly top list. I had to leave out very good to excellent stuff so to squeeze it into a 20-list. I'm sure many will notice the absence of great bands and albums. The abundance was overwhelming to the extent of massive fatigue! Really, if bands or musicians who are trying to break through, and are reading this pathetic publication, should very carefully consider when and how to release their music. The audience is expecting big bands and long-waited albums, so no matter how good is and UG band performing, its album is more likely to drown in instead of being recognized...

Saying all the above, I tried damn hard to narrow it down to twenty-list here... No honorable mentions this time or another 40 albums would have appeared. They are all in my notebook so who knows - some might become more favorable with time and progress to the AOTY list.

I'm sure everybody enjoys different stuff, but in my opinion, this is the creme de la creme for the past month. Every album does matter here. 

MASTODON - Hushed and Grim
Release Date: 29 October



MASSACRE - Resurgence
Release Date: 22 October


OPHIS - Spew Forth Odium
Release Date: 29 October


MORGAL - Nightmare Lord
Release Date: 29 October

ATRÆ BILIS - Apexapien
Release Date: 8 October


NOLTEM - Ilusions In The Wake
Release Date: 15 October

ARCHSPIRE - Bleed The Future 
Release Date: 29 October


NORSE - Ascetic
Release Date: 8 October


APPARITION - Feel
Release Date: 22 October


GLOOSH - Sylvan Coven
Release Date: 1 October

1914 - Where Fear and Weapon Meet
Release Date: 22 October


GHOST BATH - Self Loather
Release Date: 29 October


BE'LAKOR - Coherence
Release Date: 29 October


FIRST FRAGMENT - Gloire Éternelle
Release Date: 29 October
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BURIAL - Inner Gateways To The Slumber Equilibrium At The Center of Cosmo
Release Date: 29 October


WORM - Foreverglade
Release Date: 22 October

BIZARRE - Invocation Codex
Release Date: 29 October


UNTAMED LAND - Like Creatures Seeking Their Own Forms
Release Date: 8 October



CRADLE OF FILTH - Existence is Futile
Release Date: 22 October

PAYDRETZ - Chroniques de l'Insurrection
Release Date: 8 October

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