Loudwire Staff

Over 50 years of metal's best!

See all the new releases coming each week of 2026.

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

On replay all year.

Out of thousands of songs released in 2025, we narrowed it down to the 13 best rock songs and ranked them for you.

It was a great, wide-ranging year for hard rock music and here we rank the best rock albums of 2025.

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

Metal is in a healthy place as we enter the back half of the 2020s.

What a year! We'll be listening to these for a long, long time.

Recapping the very best rock and metal albums of the year.