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 ... incredible year for heavy music, no matter what ...

Without a doubt, one of the best European metal bands. We’re still in England, with one of the best bands, not only in Europe ...

One thing is for certain though and that's that heavy metal ... a whole new genre out of it. And then metal branched into different directions from there. READ MORE: Rock Bands That Were Once ...

Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool ...

In fact, their earliest sets included several covers from Venom, Blitzkrieg, Mercyful Fate, and other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands. However, Metallica didn’t stop at paying tribute to ...

heavy bass, soaring, even growling vocals, and a powerful drum beat. Even better, much of metal music is based on classical theory. Who are the top five metal bands of all time? Unfortunately ...

Every day, there was something new ... from that music. “Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era,” as RidingEasy describes it. In purely musical terms, these bands were more spare-sounding ...

Imagine, as a lark, putting together a heavy metal band with ... Calling them “new” would be a misnomer. But like so many of Asia’s metal bands—including BABYMETAL, Japan’s kawaii ...