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

Here are the best rock and metal albums of 2024 so far. We are more than half way through the year with some incredible releases by veterans and modern day legends alike. For rock and metal's legacy ...

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

The turn of the century saw a ton of innovation in extreme metal, particularly in regards to tone, songwriting structure, and quality of production. Despite being all but kneecapped in the ’90s due to ...

Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums of the 1980s and the 90 best of the 1990s! The sounds and styles that were pioneered and popularized across these two decades is mind-boggling. The guitar ...

Nearly half of the most collected albums on Discogs‘ 2025 most collected albums list came from the worlds of rock and metal. The music cataloging website is popular among collectors who enjoy keeping ...

As the '80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed — and had begun to undergo — a radical shift. It was a unique moment in hard rock and metal ...

Trends may come and go, but the rage and triumph of heavy metal never go out of style. Both of those feelings were welcome in 2022, as headbangers felt more comfortable moshing at concerts and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a rock subgenre more critically reviled than glam metal. Unsurprisingly, the critics hated it, and not always without reason. For every six-string virtuoso and ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...