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 ...

Have you ever wondered who the models are on the front of some iconic rock and metal album covers? The artwork on the cover of an album is an essential part of the story that the music tells.

Album covers can sometimes make or break the appeal of an album. These five super-cool album covers from the 1990s only made the music within their sleeves even better. Let’s take a look at just ...

Black Sabbath's impact can be heard throughout music, which has led to a number of bands covering them. Here are the very best.

Peter Saville's most wilfully obscure album cover for New Order was the 1986 album Brotherhood, which contained an image of sheet metal and no other markings on the sleeve, apart from the ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

From the beginning of his career, provocative, funny, and surreal album covers helped Zappa set himself apart from his contemporaries. Zappa’s sleeves were pop art in the truest sense ...

Just like eyes are windows to the soul, album covers are glimpses into a musician’s artistic expression. In some instances, cover art has become just as—if not more—iconic than the music itself, ...

Being transgender in black metal is still highly uncertain territory. In 2017, current Sonja bandleader Melissa Moore was unceremoniously kicked out of USBM act Absu, allegedly on account of her ...

The San Francisco quintet is back, unveiling their sixth studio album Lonely People With Power, along with a brand new metal-focused single “Magnolia.” Deafheaven are firing on all cylinders ...

A list of 50 terrible songs on otherwise great, classic albums, from the Beatles and Bob Dylan to Harry Styles and Taylor ...