Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 ...
Here are the 25 best metal albums of 2000. It was the dawn of not just a new century, but a new metal millennium. After a bumpy decade for heavy metal on the whole, a resurgence for the genre's ...
Concept albums are prevalent across music. Some tell a continuous story, while others use each song to contribute to an overall theme. Regardless of the path taken, the process can be arduous and ...
Balancing critical acclaim and commercial success is a feat achieved by only a select few, with iconic acts like The Beatles and Pink Floyd standing as prime examples. Another artist who has navigated ...
A genre that changed the world of metal forever, nu-metal had a firm 10-year grasp on music from around 1994 until 2004, and essentially defined a large chunk of pop-culture. Defining what bands ...
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Taylor Swift lands the UK’s biggest vinyl album of 2024 with The Tortured Poets Department. Taylor’s 11th studio album tops the list with 112,000 units sold on wax, the highest yearly figure ...
In 2024, the most memorable country albums were the projects that fell on one end or the other of a stylistic extreme. Some of the biggest splashes came from young-gun traditionalists, who ...
“The album is god, period.” That’s Jack Antonoff on the And The Writer Is… podcast earlier this month. “There’s no brilliant artist that’s existed for a real period of time and ...