A truly glorious year for music. These are the 2025 albums I loved the best, played the most, and felt the deepest — 20 of them, because there were too many greats to cut it down to a mere top ten.

As 2025 draws to a close, Metacritic has unveiled its annual rankings of the best albums of the year, highlighting a diverse and genre-spanning collection of critically acclaimed releases. From ...

Here are the 11 best thrash albums of 2025. Thrash has not historically been known for its willingness to reinvent the wheel — when James Hetfield famously sang "full speed or nothing" on Metallica's ...

2026 is here — and already, it’s shaping up to be a big year for music. Artists like A$AP Rocky, Megan Moroney, and Hilary Duff are kicking things off with a bang ...

Take a walk down memory lane — and try to quell your disbelief — with the following list of 40 classic rock and metal albums turning 40 in 2026. Nineteen eighty-six was a great time to be an ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum's annual preview of what we're excited to hear next year. This time, I've broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions ...

From an unexpected and addicting country debut to the buzzy second act of an established pop star, these are some of our favorite albums of 2025. By Ethan Millman, Nicole Fell Too often in covering ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

The title is wrong. SALVATION is anything but. So much of this music pulls from the exciting new bastion of K-pop music coming out right now, like the work of Aespa or TWICE, yet it’s all so generic, ...

BTS fans are dreaming of spring, and not just because of the current winter weather. The turning of the new year brought an announcement to Korean media that the group will be releasing a new album on ...

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...