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Looking for some heavy music to get your kicks? It’s our Top 10 Metal Albums of 1976! Being the Bicentennial, the American bands came out […]

Having spent the 1970s taking UFO and Scorpions to the top of the heavy metal pantheon, Michael Schenker chose to take the 1980s into his […]

This ain’t no jive! Today we reveal our Top 10 Metal Albums of 1975! In this week’s edition, Sabbath returns, Rush reinvents, and Rainbow rises. […]

Despite the rift between punks and metalheads in the late 70s and 1980s, it was only a matter of time before both genres collided in […]

There’s no way we could ignore 1974. With Black Sabbath devoting the year to tour behind Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, our ’74 list is essentially an […]

You’ve read all the other year end “best of” lists. Now get ready to read the only one that matters! All arrogance aside, 2020 was […]

‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas and all through the house, every creature was stirring. Mom was finishing up wrapping gifts for long […]

I think that we can all agree what an excellent year for metal was 1973. This was the year that veterans pivoted their styles, up […]

As 2020 comes to a close, it’s that time of year when I and all the other self proclaimed metal journalists put together our annual […]

1972 was the year metal grew! By now, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were bonafide arena headliners, Alice Cooper was persona non grata, and new […]