Loudwire Staff

Your 2025 hard rock and metal album release calendar is here!

It's a new year, so let's take a look at some of the most promising rock and metal bands you'll definitely know in 2025.

Loudwire counts down the 11 best metal albums of 2024. See if your favorites made the cut!

Slipknot's Clown called the future rock and metal festival headliners 'horrible.' Loudwire's staff responds and answers some important questions.

Keeping track of hundreds of new releases coming your way.

See Loudwire's picks for the best metal song of each year since 1970, alongside the runner-up choices!

The best of the best, year after year. The rock world has evolved quite a bit from 1970.

Over 50 years of metal's best!

Loudwire recaps the best rock and metal songs that came out in 2024. How many of your favorites are on the list?

Loudwire recaps the very best rock and metal albums of 2024.