After the precedent was set for heavy metal in the 1970s, the 1980s elevated the genre to the next level as some legendary bands released 10/10 no-skip albums. While the decade was known for musicians ...

The past few years have seen vinyl come back in a big way. Seemingly every new album gets pressed on a series of limited-edition colored records, and fans eagerly add them to their collection. While ...

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Read on to see the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums ranked worst to best.

In the late 1970s, British rock bands reacted against punk rock and new wave music. They dressed in robes, wrote fantastical lyrics, and dropped the blues from their heavy guitar riffs. Still, some of ...

Despite a magnificent, state-of-the-art heavy metal production job, and being superior to anything released by Maiden in ...

See how we ranked every album by the Big 4 of prog metal. After all, Queensrÿche were the style’s most impactful 1980s forebearer; Dream Theater were the first to fully combine heavy metal and 1970s ...