I’ve always passed detox trends off as phony wellness fads. When I started to hear about the dangers of heavy metal toxicity, my feelings began to change. I was first introduced to the concept ...

A punishingly hateful mixture of sludge, noise and death metal, SHAME is less an album than an endurance test for listeners who's souls aren't already black as tar. Abyssal and unrelenting, each track ...

In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer, the genre-blending icon revealed the one thing he'd change about heavy metal: its obsession with subgenres. "I'd get rid of all the categories they've ...

but perhaps not worth jumping on immediately unless the black metal album aesthetics really speak to you. But if that's enough for you, Voin is out now in Steam early access for £15.07/$17.99 ...

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Loudwire has ranked the 11 best metal albums of 2024. Come see if your favorites from this year made the cut! As we get deeper into the 2020s, one thing is becoming increasingly clear — we're ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here.

And just like that — we're about to reach the halfway point of the 2020s, so keep reading to see the most anticipated rock and metal albums of 2025. By the end of every year, we know some of ...