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 ...

Death metal continues to thrive in 2025. With subgenres ranging from melodeath and technical death metal to deathcore, goregrind and beyond, it's a genre that continues to inspire and attract massive ...

From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

Iron Maiden's Live After Death returns to multiple charts after an anniversary vinyl reissue, hitting No. 1 on the rock ranking for the first time decades after its release.

I didn't think too hard about dedicating the second-ever edition of this column to Ragne Wahlquist. The late Heavy Load frontman left an indelible mark on heavy metal, in his native Sweden and beyond, ...

(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 ...

Testament's Para Bellum is both a thunderous celebration of the band's thrash legacy and a bold venture into uncharted territory — and it's Loudwire's best metal album of 2025. Why Did We Pick This ...

From Bad Bunny to Rosalía, Metacritic's top 10 albums of 2025 celebrate bold risks and career-defining releases.

Hollywood was dealt a series of losses this year, from actor Gene Hackman to rocker Ozzy Osbourne. Remembering the year's ...

The 2020s are racing by and we’ve only got four years left.

Let’s start at the end: After thirty years, once-dead-now-revived NOLA sludge gods Acid Bath returned to Denver, and the local legion let loose three decades of pent-up excitement Saturday night, ...