Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this ... it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.

C reating a studio album is a major accomplishment for any metal band; producingover 10 places them in an iconic category. Sometimes one is all they need to make a lasting impress ...

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

In February of that year, EMI released the Metal For Muthas compilation, one that gave the whole NWOBHM concept a major-label ...

Then, in the 1980s and into the 1990s, artists like Fates Warning, Queensr che, Savatage, and especially Dream Theater ...

The Saxon frontman takes Hammer reader's questions - and definitively answers whether Vikings or Saxons would win in a fight ...

Here are the 11 best hair metal albums of the last 25 years ... a new generation of bands have embraced the energetic, party-heavy sound that erupted from Los Angeles and the Sunset Strip and ...

The metal I know and (sorta) love dates back to the 1980s. Little Rock’s Rwake sounds nothing like those acts, nor does its ...

Alternative rock and metal go hand in hand, but these five albums blended the genres together in a really creative way.

The heavy metal group Disturbed is currently on tour with an upcoming show date at the BJCC Legacy arena in Birmingham on ...

Midnight pay homage to the punk and metal of their hometown on the ripper "Cleveland Metal." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.