Here are 25 rock and metal bands you might not know, but will in 2025. It's no secret — being a new (or new-ish) band means putting yourself, your music, your ambition and all your hopes and dreams, ...

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 touring ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is no stranger to criticism, and one of the most common complaints about the institution is its woeful lack of metal representation. That's not a radical stance to take.

Following up from my Hall and Oates essay, I decided it was time to talk about another musical “guilty pleasure” for those not quite cool enough to abandon the idea of guilty pleasures. I’m talking ...

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 Hard Rock ...

Is Metallica rock or metal? The answer may not be as simple as you might think. Sure, us metalheads wouldn't dream of lumping Metallica in with only rock music. Because, let's face it, the ...

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 ...

You've heard of these lost metal albums and you've wanted to listen to 'em, but they don't exist. At least not in any publicly available space. These are the records that we all wish we could finally ...

The ’90s brought an onslaught of classic rock and metal albums. The decade saw the rise of subgenres like nu-metal and grunge. At the same time, punk underwent a mild mainstream makeover and launched ...

Save for the West Ham badge on Steve Harris's Fender Precision bass, rock and football have largely been awkward distant cousins. But come every international football tournament, there's often a ...