The 30 Metal & Hard Rock Best Albums of 2025 includes records from Deftones, Deafheaven, Turnstile, Ghost, Sleep Token, ...

A rundown of the best underground metal releases of November 2025, as picked by Heavy Consequence's Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey.

After decades in the commercial wilderness, metalmusic is currently enjoying a sizable renaissance. With both Ghost and Sleep Token enjoying number 1 albums in the United States for the first time in ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Black metal outfit Necrofier is the latest addition to the long list of bands signed with Metal Blade Records and they’ve got ...

Testament‘s Para Bellum is both a thunderous celebration of the band’s thrash legacy and a bold venture into uncharted ...

Tacos may rule Tuesdays, but Fridays are all about new albums. This week’s list of new releases features offerings from Bob Dylan, Florence + The Machine, The Charlatans UK, and more. Whether you ...

Our list of the 11 best hair metal debut albums shows just how much diversity existed within a subgenre that was too often maligned by critics as one-dimensional fluff. Granted, hair metal — or glam ...