Here are the 11 best prog metal songs of 2025! It’s truly been difficult to keep track of all the outstanding progressive metal songs released this year by both top-tier acts and artists who’re either ...

Another year gone, and narrowing down the year’s best metal albums remains as excruciating as ever, but then again, that’s part of the fun! What I enjoy is the retrospective exercise, and what it has ...

Cover songs, at some point, became part of nu-metal culture. To be more specific, these were mostly covers of pop songs. Sure, some did it before Limp Bizkit unleashed their take on George Michael's ...

Let's rip off the Band-Aid: This is the final Black Market. After 11-plus years and 140 columns, we're finally packing it in. "Welcome to the Black Market, a new space at Stereogum dedicated to ...

So, 2026. Let’s see if we get through this one as well! Regardless, there are already many excellent records to go through. The multiple interpretations of death metal still take centre stage, with ...

It has been a weird week for metal. There were a lot of metal-adjacent releases – some good, some, well, I’ll leave that up to you to decide for yourself. “Metal-adjacent” is pretty commonplace these ...

The music world refused to stand still in 2025. This wasn’t a year for playing it safe. Across the globe and all over the stylistic map, music kept mutating in the weirdest, wildest ways. The artists ...