32 years ago today, Nasir Jones, better known as Nas, dropped his groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, forever changing the ...

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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 ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Man, 2025 was one hell of a year for metal. Over the course of one rotation around the sun, we’ve seen legends calling it quits and new acts breaking out onto the scene, we’ve had long-defunct bands ...