From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal ...

That’s why the records by those bands, along with 10 more listed here, represent the genre’s best — and heaviest — albums ...

I’d love to counter all that by saying 2025 was an unambiguously great year for music—but that wouldn’t be entirely true ...

Eighteen Visions struck gold and made a name for themselves with their 2000 opus Until the Ink Runs Out. It’s a vision of ...

Released at the height of the 1980s, Def Leppard’s Hysteria helped redefine rock albums through scale, sound, and lasting ...

These 10 producers were instrumental in that process. Through their work with some of the genre’s most influential and ...

(Editor’s note: Looking back on 2025, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach out to some of today’s ...

The former lead singer of a popular Scottish rock band has responded to being replaced after a decade with the group. Carl ...

The first solo album in three years from the New York rapper (and his first release since his twin 2023 stunners, the Kenny Segal collab Maps, which landed on our 2023 year-end list, and Armand Hammer ...

Khemmis is synonymous with modern doom metal at this point, backed by a consistent catalog of harmonious heavy hitters ...

I Want Out laid its cards on the table. It might have been written for Michael Kiske to sing, but the sentiments were all Hansen’s. “Shut your mouth and take it home / Cos I decide the way things ...

2025 will undoubtedly go down as an important year in metal history, if only for the heartbreaking number of generational voices and visionary musicians we lost over the last 12 months. As sad as it ...