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

Our co-Editor in Chief lists his 2021 favorites, including what should be a fairly obvious "Album of the Year" for those who pay attention.

With varied picks from black, death, and beyond, Writer Brandon Nurick's best albums of 2021 is likely to have a record or two you haven't heard yet.

We've collected some of our favorite releases from 2021 so far for your perusal.

All the new metal releasing between March 14th, 2021 and March 20th, 2021 -- spin (or skip) new music from Mare Cognitum, Agent Steel, Batushka, and more.

Stream brand-new space black metal courtesy of Mare Cognitum; still steaming from an amazing split/collaboration with Spectral Lore, the solo project will deliver a masterful full-length this Spring.

Langdon Hickman's top picks for the year range from the emotionally harrowing to just plain kickass.

A black metal enigma teams up with The Black Dahlia Murder's vocalist to cover a classic rocker in support of Markov Soroka's family -- stream the unlikely collaboration now.

IO staffers and editors came together to assemble eight gnarly and heavy releases that hit shelves last month -- March 2020 brought us some of the most challenging and exciting heavy music to date, and here are our top favorites.

The combined forces of two pioneering solo black metal outfits detail the solar system in a two-hour voyage -- we delve into the journey and dissect what makes this split such a cosmic success.