Vote for the Final Songs in KNOTFEST's Best of 2021 Gauntlet

Before we're all overwhelmed with an avalanche of new music in the new year, there's still a bit of time to reflect on how many great songs came out in 2021.

This weekend, the Best of 2021 Gauntlet will determine the greatest of them all, and you can vote for the last ones in!

Starting Friday, Jan. 7th at 4 p.m. PT and continuing at 2 p.m. PT on Saturday, the 40 best songs of the year will go head-to-head in The Gauntlet, live on KNOTFEST's Official Twitch Channel, hosted by Jon "StayPuft" Mallow. The winners will be decided by you in the chat. Four of those 40 will move to the final round.

Finally, on Sunday at 12pm PT, the final 10 songs voted into the tournament by the KNOTFEST audience will slug it out for a chance at the Championship Bracket. In the final round, the weekend's winners will join previous Gauntlet winners — Emma Ruth Rundle, Frontierer, Employed to Serve and Amenra — for all the marbles.

VOTE HERE

Voting is open now through Sunday! Choose between 50 songs, with the top 10 making it in for Sunday's bracket.

Friday, Jan 7 @ 4 p.m. PT: 1st Half of 2021 Gauntlet

1st Half of 2021 Gauntlet Roster:

**Brand of Sacrifice** - Animal
**Tribulation** - Funeral Pyre
**Enforced** - Malignance
**Pupil Slicer** - Wounds Upon My Skin
**Capra** - The Locust Preacher
**Andrew W.K.** - Bablon
**Bewitcher** - Mystifier (White Night City)
**Gojira** - Born for One Thing
**Bodom After Midnight** - Paint the Sky with Blood
**Bala** - X
**Vexed** - Epiphany
**Spiritbox** - Circle with Me
**Bokassa** - So Long, Idiots!
**Tetrarch** - Negative Noise
**Turnstile** - Mystery
**The Night Flight Orchestra** - White Jeans
**Slaughter to Prevail** - Baba Yaga
**Powerwolf** - Dancing with the Dead
**Unto Others** - When Will Gods Work Be Done
**Lorna Shore** - To the Hellfire

Saturday, Jan 8 @ 2 p.m. PT: 2nd Half of 2021 Gauntlet

2nd Half of 2021 Gauntlet Roster:

**Jinjer** - Vortex
**Dying Wish** - Fragments of a Bitter Memory
**Cradle of Filth** - Crawling King Chaos
**Trivium** - In the Court of the Dragon
**Every Time I Die** - Post - Boredom
**Green Lung** - Graveyard Sun
**Iron Maiden** - Stratego
**Lucifer** - Bring Me His Head
**Ghost** - Hunter's Moon
**Mastodon** - Teardrinker
**Khemmis** - Living Pyre
**Zeal & Ardor** - Gotterdammerung
**Converge & Chelsea Wolfe** - Coil
**Knocked Loose** - God Knows
**Slipknot** - The Chapeltown Rag
**Code Orange** - Out for Blood
**Rolo Tomassi** - Drip
**Venom Prison** - Pain of Oizys
**Napalm Death** - Narcissus
**Heriot** - Near Vision / Enter the Flesh

Sunday, Jan 9 @ 12 p.m. PT: Vote-In Gauntlet / Championship Gauntlet

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