DEATHRATTLE PODCAST ~ Dirty Dozen (Best Of 2021)

 My top 12 albums of 2021

OPHIS

Six lamentations of morose doom death contagion shroud the new album Spew Forth Odium in a sallow, sickly pallor. Six Pallbearers hunched under a leaden casket.

CRYPT MONARCH

It’s the guitar tone that’s done it for me, moist and saturated in so much fuzz that if you could squeeze each track, gelatinous riffs would drip through your fingers.

ALTARETH

Stoner doom riffs spitting sludge and acid before collapsing in on itself under the immense weight.

KAL-EL

It’s the harmonies that do it for me, it’s really magical the way the soaring vocals hitch a ride on some of the smoothest yet heaviest stoner doom riffs ever laid before the Sabbathian altar.

WITHERED WITCH

I started playing this and my innards fell out of my a**e! Bottomless doom with limitless hate.

CANNIBAL CORPSE

One of the most consistent of death metal bands. Never has brutality sounded so groovy, with riffs as fresh as the air from a recently exhumed casket.

RESTLESS SPIRIT

The stoner doom foundation comes down hard, licks cut deep, encapsulated by a heavy/hard rock crunch.

DEVOTION

Blood soaked riffs twisting and tightening like a tourniquet around your neck. Eyes bulge, tongue swells before the noxious doom death atmosphere sucks the last, gasping breath from your throat.

SAPROBIONTIC

Never has something as corpulent as this album moved so fast. If these guys entered a ‘Drag the Bloated Corpse’ race, they’d grab first place every time, but then again, maybe not seeing as they wouldn’t be able to stop playing with it.

DARK REDEEMER

The rise of the zombie horde! Frenzied death metal with a caustic HM-2 sound backed up with keyboards for added horror.

HELLLIGHT

Dark, endless, psalms of sorrow to play at your wake. Each track pays homage to your bereavement.

ANIMALESCO, o METODO

Picking away at the crusty scabrous top layer reveals a snarling, rabid and thoroughly relentless death grind mass punished by Godly Celtic Frost style breakdowns.