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!
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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