The story of the West Memphis Three captured the attention of the metal world - and some of its biggest artists took action ...

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal ...

That’s why the records by those bands, along with 10 more listed here, represent the genre’s best — and heaviest — albums ...

UCR’s list of Top 25 Rock Songs of 2025 shows that classic rock is still bucking trends. There are a trio of duets, including ...

Eighteen Visions struck gold and made a name for themselves with their 2000 opus Until the Ink Runs Out. It’s a vision of ...

If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative ...

Judas Priest, one of the seemingly few mainstream bands that embraced the “heavy metal” label, epitomised the driving, ...

From Castle Rat's fantastical doom metal to the Dirty Nil's punk- and classic rock-fueled blitzkrieg, these artists carried ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

(Editor’s note: Looking back on 2025, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach out to some of today’s ...

Making a list of good things that happened in 2025 may feel like a very short exercise…however despite the world being on ...