Here's five new rock and metal albums announced this week that you can look forward to.

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Let's rip off the Band-Aid: This is the final Black Market. After 11-plus years and 140 columns, we're finally packing it in. "Welcome to the Black Market, a new space at Stereogum dedicated to ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

Here’s the best album by 10 huge progressive metal bands. Already, we've looked at the most underrated album by 10 big prog metal bands. You know, the records that are far from perfect but still ...

Their first studio album The Gereg was released in late 2019 and heavily incorporated Mongolian culture into hard-hitting rock music. Later that year The Hu was awarded with the Order of Chinggis ...

The once-maligned genre of nu metal has since been re-evaluated as the important, influential, unique moment for music and culture that it always was, and it’s been everywhere lately, so we’ve been ...

British heavy metal legends Judas Priest just released their 19 th studio album, Invincible Shield, this past week and, in doing so, they supposedly set a new record in heavy metal history. According ...

The year 1984 was one of the greatest in heavy metal history. Some might argue the greatest. A cornucopia of genre styles and creative breakthroughs led to a mainstream explosion that would dominate ...

In the music industry, metal is usually a long game to the top, and many of the most iconic rock bands have had careers ...