The metal genre is blessed with dozens of sensational debut albums, and these 10 metal artists began their careers with ...

Sounding as bleak, powerful and starkly beautiful as the natural forces ... but one of the essential extreme metal albums of 2024. From obvious touch points like Bolt Thrower, Dismember and ...

Whether it’s with the punkish black metal of debut album Í Blóði Og Anda or the ... sought dominion over a paradisal land inhabited by beautiful women, sorcerers and demons.

The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our ...

This list goes to 11 … and that Spinal Tap joke is about as far as headbanging traditionalism goes with this list of 2023’s best metal albums. The past year has seen beloved metal titans like ...

This album is heavy in a unique way -- a quiet way. Beautiful acoustic guitar parts surround John Haughm's harsh whispers, while tracks like 'The Astral Dialogue' nail a more familiar metal sound.

These rock and metal albums from the 1990s were criminally overlooked upon release and deserve to be rediscovered.

Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 ...