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

2025 is well and truly underway! Just shy of the six-month point of the year, we've had massive new albums from the likes of Spiritbox, Architects, Machine Head, Ghost and so many others to show that ...

The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of ...

What qualified as metal in 1995 was a grab bag for sure. After the fallout from the popularity of grunge, metal went back underground but was poised for a return led by nu metal. While not all of ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Listen to a remastered cover of "Black Metal" now. Norwegian symphonic black metal trailblazers Dimmu Borgir have announced the release of Inspiratio Profanus, a new album that compiles the band's ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

There were over 35 hard rock and metal albums that went No. 1 in the 2000s. We don't see hard rock and metal top the Billboard 200 very often anymore. As of May 2025, Ghost's Skeleta is only the ...

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 ...