Best of Hardcore 2021


Number Five: Death Goals – The Horrible and the Miserable


With a varied attack from many fronts, Death Goals’s The Horrible and the Miserable is an amazingly diverse hardcore album that totally slays!


Number Four: Tunic – Quitter


How great is this album, eh? Fast-paced hardcore closer to its punk roots than most others on this list, Tunic’s second 2021 album hits just the right spot for me!


Number Three: Anti Ritual – Expel the Leeches


Anti Ritual is hardcore blackened to a char. Expel the Leeches is a relentless album, and it’s totally oppressive. Definitely worth its spot on the top list!


Number Two: Lung Knots – Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges


Definitely the most out-there album on this list. Should this even count as “hardcore”? I don’t know, but I just did. This noisy electro album fits neatly under the hardcore umbrella, and with its creativity and execution, Finland’s Lung Knots is just that good.


Number One: Tharsis They – Hell First


A last-minute contender (and winner) of the hardcore AOTY! Released on December 17, the eagerly anticipated new album from Tharsis They just blew everything else away. I just can’t get enough of this band!


Notable Releases

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Friday, 5 February

Evil Prevails – Dirt and Decay

20:48
blackened hardcore
Rouyn Noranda, Québec
Independent

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Friday, 12 February

Lung Knots – Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges

34:36
experimental hardcore, noise
USA
Trepanation

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Friday, 26 March

The Drowned God – Pale Home

45:24
blackened post-hardcore
USA
Solid State


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Friday, 2 April

Bridge Burner – Disempath

26:14
blackened hardcore
Auckland, New Zealand
Hibernation Release

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Friday, 9 April

Tunic – Exhaling

49:11
noise punk
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Art of Fact

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Friday, 7 May

Shevils – Miracle of the Sun

32:12
hardcore
Oslo, Norway
Independent

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Monday, 10 May

МорохAll the Darkness Looks Alive

41:48
blackened hardcore
Moscow, Russia
Independent

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Friday, 4 June

Death Goals – The Horrible and the Miserable

23:29
blackened hardcore
London, UK
Independent

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Friday, 6 August

Lingua ignōta – Sinner Get Ready

55:30
experimental, classical
United States
Sargent House

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Friday, 27 August

Turnstile – Glow On

34:30
hardcore
Maryland
Roadrunner


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Friday, 3 September

РысьРысь

16:13
hardcore
Tolyatti, Russia
Independent

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Friday, 17 September

Fuck toute – Coké Computer

39:40
hardcore, grindcore
Montréal, Québec
Slam disques

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Wednesday, 13 October

Knocked Loose – A Tear in the Fabric of Life

21:02
hardcore
Pasadena, California
Pure Noise

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Friday, 15

Tunic – Quitter

20:56
noise punk
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Art of Fact

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Friday, 29

Anti Ritual – Expel the Leeches

30:27
blackened hardcore
Copenhagen, Denmark
Indisciplinarian

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Feels like Home – Bound for Hell

20:45
metalcore
Quebec City, Québec
Independent

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Tuesday, 2 November

Anti-God Hand & Threshing Spirit – Split

33:04
blackened hardcore
Chicago, Illinois
American Decline

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Friday, 10 December

АферистНи конца ни края

13:08
hardcore
Russia
Chaika

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Friday, 17 December

Tharsis They – Hell First

25:11
hardcore, deathgrind
Michigan
Independent

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Best of 2021

01/01 – Best of Afrobeat
01/02 – Best of Atmospheric Black Metal
01/03 – Best of Avant-Garde Black Metal
01/04 – Best of Brutal Death Metal
01/05 – Best of Classical
01/06 – Best of Death Metal
01/07 – Best of Deathcore
01/08 – Best of Doom Metal
01/09 – Best of Folk
01/10 – Best of Grindcore
01/11 – Best of Hardcore

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