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

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

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

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

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

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

What makes an album of the year? Well, a few things, to be honest. It needs to be able to appeal to a wide ran ...

(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 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 ...

Set to kick off on April 24 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and coming to a close on June 6 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the ...

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, ...