In other music festival news, we got the Riot Fest lineup this week. And as for new music, it’s a busier week than the last couple weeks were. We have 11 new album reviews below and Bill tackles ...

He influenced Kurt Cobain, Metallica, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and counted Jimmy Page as a fan. We pay tribute to a true guitar ...

Some metal artists have made tremendous contributions to the genre and never got their dues from the mainstream. This is a ...

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The opening track “Blade of Cimmeria” was pretty strong in that it established what kind of tales were getting in this album.

and death metal writ large, translate to devotees of hardcore punk. In the case of Judas Priest, they never set out to make a protest album, but by the time the band retreated to the legendary ...

From Black Sabbath to Carcass and even Rage Against The Machine, here's a list of all the metal albums available for Record Store Day 2025.

Ioannis Vasilopoulos, the Greek designer who created album covers for some of the world’s biggest rock bands, died at the age of 66.

After a near-15-year hiatus, Stereolab is returning this spring with a new album. The band announced the release of Instant Holograms On Metal Film this morning, their first new project since Not ...

For the first time in quite some time, there's about to be a new Stereolab album out in the world ... Instant Holograms on Metal Film is previewed today by the liquid groove of lead single ...

Here are the 11 best progressive death metal bands of all time! On paper, mixing prog rock and death metal might seem like mixing oil and water. Why? Because the former subgenre is largely known ...

To that end, we've assembled a beginner's guide to the very best that metal has to offer in 2025, looking at some of the albums that have lit up our reviewer's brains in recent months. From death ...