Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all ... and it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.

But this pursuit is what also inadvertently brought me head-to-head with metal music in ways I never ... the sounds that evolved from that music. “Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era ...

More importantly, the album would become highly influential in the formation of heavy metal. Deep Purple found their heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. It was the first to ...