Ekko Astral received much-deserved praise for their 2024 full-length debut, pink balloons, which was filled with angular noise punk songs. Given the news headlines since that time, you should expect ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

2025 begone! We've finally hit the end of the year, and with it our mega round-ups of all that has been great in the past twelve months. It's been a big year for metal - Black Sabbath and Ozzy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...