Sick Drummer Magazine – Favorite Drumming Albums of 2021

Sick Drummer Magazine’s Favorite Drumming Albums of 2021! Our team has gone back and forth and has decided on these records. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least favorite, but a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first names. Our team considered creativity, groove, originality, musicality, finesse, speed, technicality, and several other factors when compiling our list. We apologize in advance to those we may not have heard… or overlooked. It’s been another crazy year!

Happy Holidays from all of us here at SDM!

Let’s all show our appreciation for these outstanding performances by these outstanding drummers. With the shitstorm 2021 continued to be for most everyone, and the music industry, in particular, we are honored and excited to have these records to listen to and learn from. Please share the links to your favorites, and if you are able, purchase some records and/or merchandise from these artists. Every little bit helps.

Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for giving us such amazing works to enjoy, learn from, and share!

2021 Best Of Drumming - SDM

Adam Jarvis | LockUp | The Dregs of Hades

Adrian Erlandsson | At The Gates | The Nightmare of Being

Alex Rudinger | Whitechapel | Kin

Anthony Lusk-Simone | Abiotic | Ikigai

Austin Archey | Lorna Shore | And I Return To Nothingness

Baard Kolstad | Leprous | Aphelion

Blake Richardson | BTBAM | Colors II

Bobby Crow | Signs of the Swarm | Absolvere

Brann Dailor | Mastodon | Hushed and Grim

Bryan Bever | The Breathing Process | Labyrinthian

Bryce Butler | Valiant Crusade | IV EP

Buster Odeholm | Vildhjarta | Måsstaden Under Vatten

Cameron Losch | Born of Osiris | Angel or Alien

Chason Westmoreland | Cambion | Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium

Dan Wilding | Carcass | Torn Arteries

Dave Astor | Pathology | The Everlasting Plague

Dave Bland | Full of Hell | Garden of Burning Apparitions

Dave Lombardo | Mr. Bungle | The Night They Came Home

David Diepold | Obscura | A Valediction

David Haley | The Amenta | Revelator

Dobber Beverly | Malignant Alter | Realms of Exquisite Morbidity

Eloy Casagrande | Sepultura | SepulQuarta

Erik Ramsier | The Lion’s Daughter | Skin Show

Freddy Bolsø | Blood Red Throne | Imperial Congregation

Giulio Galati | Hideous Divinity | LV-426

Hannes Grossmann | To Where Light Retreats

Hans Jorgen Ersvik | DisKord | Degenerations

Ignis Fatuus | Portal | Avow

Janne Jaloma | Aeon | God Ends Here

Jared Klein | Rivers of Nihil | The Work

Jeramie Kling | The Absence | Coffinized

Joshua Ward | XAEL | Bloodtide Rising

Ken Bedene | Aborted | Maniacult

Ken Mary | Flotsam and Jetsam | Blood In The Water

Kenny Grohowski | Imperial Triumphant | An Evening With Imperial Triumphant

Lee Fisher | Fawn Limbs | Darwin Falls

Luana Dametto | Crypta | Echoes of the Soul

Luke Boyd | 12 Guage Rampage | Unleash The Rage

Lyn Jeffs | Ingested | The Surreption II

Marco Pitruzzella | Waking The Cadaver | Authority Through Intimidation

Michiel Van Der Plicht | Pestilence | Exitivm

Mike Heller | Fear Factory | Aggression Continuum

>>> Nicko McBrain | Iron Maiden | Senjutsu | \nn/\nn/

Paul Mazurkiewicz | Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined

Pete Murray | BLK OPS | The Heroic Dose

Pierce Williams | Aenigmatum | Deconsecrate

Ragnar Sverrisson | Ophidian I | Desolate

Reidar “Horgh” Horghagen | Hypocrisy | Worship

John Glassbrenner | Pyrexia | Gravitas Maximus

Shawn Cameron | Carnifex | Graveside Confessions

Spencer Moore | Inferi | Vile Genesis

Spencer Prewett | Archspire | Bleed The Future

TJ Chilton | Summoning The Lich | United in Chaos

Tom Hunting | Exodus | Persona Non Grata

Vladislav “Vlad” Ulasevich | Jinjer | Wallflowers

This last one was actually released on November 2, 2020, but we must give this record some recognition now, as we didn’t hear about it until a few months ago. These guys are all like 17 or 18 and the drumming on this record is outstanding. Give this video a look, then go buy the record… we think you’ll agree.

Dante Chandler-Haas | Barn | Barn

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>>> Check out our 2019 list here

>>> Check out our 2020 list here