From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

It's been a stunning year for heavy music, from legends of the game like Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold returning with new studio albums to rising stars like Sleep Token, Spiritbox, Svalbard and ...

I could pretend that there’s some overarching theme that unites the best metal albums of 2022, but I’d just be kidding myself — and you. The only thing many of these records have in common is how ...

Here are the 10 death metal bands who write the sickest mosh riffs, as chosen by Creeping Death guitarist Trey Pemberton. The first taste of new music came via "Intestinal Wrap," a pit-ready track ...

From front to back, Rivers of Nihil’s self-titled fifth collection is virtually immaculate, so choosing one song to honor ...

Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

Testament‘s Para Bellum is both a thunderous celebration of the band’s thrash legacy and a bold venture into uncharted ...

After decades in the commercial wilderness, metalmusic is currently enjoying a sizable renaissance. With both Ghost and Sleep Token enjoying number 1 albums in the United States for the first time in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. While there’s not much debate regarding which lineup of Black ...

Our list of the 11 best hair metal debut albums shows just how much diversity existed within a subgenre that was too often maligned by critics as one-dimensional fluff. Granted, hair metal — or glam ...

Blending music styles has become so common that partitioning songs into specific genres almost seems pointless. But the pop artists below released iconic hits by radically altering their usual sound ...