Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Metal has always been somewhat on the fringes of the norm when it comes to the charts. Sure, many people know names like Black Sabbath and might even be able to sing a couple of their riffs, but no ...

Where does metal music come from and how did it get its name? In a technical sense, heavy metal was born in 1839. It’s a chemistry term describing a loosely connected set of metals defined as ...

As hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — became the predominant rock subgenre conquering the airwaves, artists and producers alike found that they could ...

BABYMETAL have announced their fourth album, appropriately dubbed METAL FORTH, arriving June 13th via new label home Capitol Records. The LP will feature collaborations with several notable artists.

The Japanese group's fifth album will also be their first released under a new global deal with Capitol Records. By Tyler Jenke Japanese heavy outfit BABYMETAL are preparing to kick off their ...

March Madness is here, and we're joining in on bracket-mania by forcing 32 excellent '80s rock albums to do battle with each other. We've filled our bracket with the most popular, influential and ...

Editor’s Note: As The Bends celebrates its 30th anniversary, Tyler Dunston’s classic review from March of 2020 reminds us that going into this album, Thom Yorke and the gang were just twentysomethings ...

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The Japanese kawaii metal band will release the follow-up to 2023’s ‘The Other One’ on June 13 via Capitol Records, and they have confirmed it will include the 2024 hit single ‘Ratatata ...

Tool are not your typical band, and have always operated in a fashion that seems relatively distant from the rest of the scene in which they inhabit. While heavily influenced by progressive rock and ...