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Here they are: our aggregated and top picks for 2021. Be sure to listen to all of them.

Writer Chris Rowella highlights some of the noisiest and nastiest albums of the year.

Joe Aprill lays out his top 20 for 2021 plus a few noteworthy EPs.

We start off our 2021 year-end lists with Brandon Corsair, whose list packs in tons of powerful underground releases.

All the new metal releasing between August 22nd, 2021 and August 28th, 2021 — spin (or skip) new music from Hooded Menace, Leprous, Fluisteraars, and more.

The Finnish death/doom band’s upcoming sixth album features heightened heavy metal influence and a particularly lethal rendition of their iconic sound—read an interview with founding member Lasse Pyykkö.

Chris Rowella’s favorite albums of 2018, featuring Corrosion of Conformity, Hooded Menace, Wrong, and more.

To smoke, or not to smoke, that is the question

Better than Annapolis Amnesia