Loudwire's Best Rock + Metals Albums of 2021 (So Far)

See if your favorite album made the cut!

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# 1

Imperative Imperceptible Impulse by Ad Nauseam

Album • Feb 12 / 2021 Technical Death Metal Avant-Garde Metal

# 2

For Those That Wish To Exist by Architects

Album • Feb 26 / 2021 Alternative Metal

# 3

Within Each Lies the Other by As Everything Unfolds

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Post-Hardcore Metalcore

# 4

Necroceros by Asphyx

Album • Jan 22 / 2021 Death Metal

# 5

Child Of The State by Ayron Jones

Album • May 21 / 2021 Hard Rock

# 7

Lifeblood by Brand of Sacrifice

Album • Mar 05 / 2021 Deathcore

# 8

Violence Unimagined by Cannibal Corpse

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Death Metal

# 9

NIRATIAS by Chevelle

Album • Mar 05 / 2021 Alternative Metal

# 10

Life in Your Glass World by Citizen

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Post-Punk Revival Alternative Rock

# 11

Dirty Honey by Dirty Honey

Album • Mar 22 / 2019 Hard Rock

# 12

The Helm of Sorrow by Emma Ruth Rundle + Thou

EP • Jan 15 / 2021 Atmospheric Sludge Metal

# 13

ERRA by ERRA

Album • Mar 19 / 2021 Progressive Metal Melodic Metalcore

# 14

The Bitter Truth by Evanescence

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Alternative Metal Alternative Rock

# 15

Hell Unleashed by Evile

Album • Apr 30 / 2021 Thrash Metal

# 16

Medicine At Midnight by Foo Fighters

Album • Feb 05 / 2021 Alternative Rock

# 17

Crypt of Ice by Frozen Soul

Album • Nov 13 / 2020 Death Metal

# 18

Fortitude by GOJIRA

Album • Apr 30 / 2021 Groove Metal Progressive Metal

# 19

The Battle at Garden’s Gate by Greta Van Fleet

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Hard Rock Blues Rock

# 20

The Greatest Mistake of My Life by Holding Absence

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Alternative Rock

# 21

Surface Sounds by KALEO

Album • Apr 23 / 2021 Blues Rock Indie Rock

# 22

Liquid Tension Experiment 3 by Liquid Tension Experiment

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Progressive Metal

# 23

Perfectly Preserved by Love and Death

Album • Feb 12 / 2021 Alternative Metal Nu Metal

# 24

Solar Paroxysm by Mare Cognitum

Album • Mar 27 / 2021 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 25

Against the Wall by Mason Hill

Album • Mar 05 / 2021 Hard Rock

# 26

Working With God by Melvins

Album • Feb 26 / 2021 Stoner Rock Alternative Rock

# 27

As The Love Continues by Mogwai

Album • Feb 19 / 2021 Post-Rock

# 28

The Ides of March by Myles Kennedy

Album • May 14 / 2021 Hard Rock

# 29

The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy by Rob Zombie

Album • Mar 12 / 2021 Industrial Metal Hard Rock

# 30

Typhoons by Royal Blood

Album • Apr 30 / 2021 Alternative Dance Alternative Rock

# 31

Tortured Whole by Sanguisugabogg

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Brutal Death Metal

# 32

Elasticity by Serj Tankian

EP • Apr 30 / 2021 Alternative Metal Alternative Rock

# 33

Smith/Kotzen by Smith/Kotzen

Album • Mar 26 / 2021 Hard Rock

# 34

Earth Is a Black Hole by Teenage Wrist

Album • Feb 12 / 2021 Alternative Rock

# 35

Unstable by Tetrarch

Album • Apr 30 / 2021 Nu Metal

# 36

Death By Rock And Roll by The Pretty Reckless

Album • Feb 12 / 2021 Hard Rock

# 37

Rejoice in the Suffering by Todd La Torre

Album • Feb 05 / 2021 Heavy Metal

# 38

SLEEPS SOCIETY by While She Sleeps

Album • Apr 16 / 2021 Alternative Metal Melodic Metalcore Nu Metal

# 39

The Crimson Corridor by Zao

Album • Apr 09 / 2021 Metalcore