Ranking the best albums of any genre is not easy, and metal might be particularly difficult. At least, BBC Music tried.

Here are 25 rock and metal bands you might not know, but will in 2025. It's no secret — being a new (or new-ish) band means putting yourself, your music, your ambition and all your hopes and dreams, ...

It was during a recent interview with “Full Metal Jackie” that Tobias Forge — better known as “Papa Perpetua/Papa Emeritus V, ...

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 ...

With thousands of metal songs released in 2025, here’s a ranking of the 13 best. Just trying to keep up with the dozens (sometimes hundreds) of new tracks dropping each week is a gauntlet. We all have ...

Here are the 11 best prog metal songs of 2025! It’s truly been difficult to keep track of all the outstanding progressive metal songs released this year by both top-tier acts and artists who’re either ...

“We are here to make coffee metal,” Nathan Explosion (Brendon Small) growls in the premiere of the mid-2000s’ Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse. “We will make everything metal. Blacker than the ...

William Shatner has announced that he's releasing a metal album featuring 35 handpicked metal musicians. Learn more.