Here are 50 of the most controversial hard rock and metal album covers of all time. Rock and metal are no strangers to provocation, whether it's a deliberate attempt to be shocking for the sake of ...

Here are 60 awful metal album covers. Whether it's cheesy '80s drawings ... much less adorn music that a band worked hard to write and record. While poor art is not always a reflection of this ...

Before the virtual grab bag of the internet, bands would have to rely on their covers ... an album simply because it looked cool? Some bands weren’t so careful about presenting their hard ...

Heavy music continues to evolve on a yearly basis, as evidenced by the wide range of releases that made Heavy Consequence‘s list of the Top 30 Metal and Hard Albums of 2022. Below are the albums ...

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 ...

It's more than hair and metal that makes a hair metal band. The bands on this list are often given that label, but is the ...

And when you consider how death metal album covers changed in the ... all-CAPS laden covers made to fit with a more “hard rock” image (gross). Don’t get me wrong, the 1987-1993 style is ...

Aging hard-rock bands have been piling up the covers albums lately ... is any indication of what makes a veteran metal act's heart beat, then it appears 20-odd years of arena bombast have been ...

The post The 30 Best Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2023 appeared first on Consequence. Most mainstream hard rock and metal bands took the year off from releasing new material, perhaps too busy ...

Kamasi Washington, the jazz saxophonist who has collaborated with Herbie Hancock and Kendrick Lamar, was in his early teens when he first heard Metallica. “Just being where I was from, their ...

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 ...

The hard rock and heavy metal albums released in 1995 marked a lot of notable endings and new beginnings. It was the last ...