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Zenith Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 Bleed From Within The Scottish metal band reaches new heights on a searing seventh LP.

Tsunami Sea Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 Spiritbox For their second album, Canadian metalcore phenoms Spiritbox found inspiration at home. In fact, vocalist Courtney LaPlante and guitarist Mike Stringer’s home island of Victoria, British Columbia,  was  the inspiration. “When we were trying to get this band off the ground, we were feeling really stuck and hopeless,” LaPlante tells Apple Music. “I was thinking back to that time, and it brought back this subconscious dread, because we’re near all the scary tectonic plates on the West Coast. Since we were little kids, everyone’s been telling us about how ‘the big one’ is coming.” Of course, a massive earthquake at sea would cause a massive tsunami. “A tsunami is a horrible natural disaster that can’t be helped, but imagine if the entire ocean was a tsunami, not just one small part of it,” LaPlante offers. “It felt like such an over-the-top, perfect example of the drama you feel when you’re depressed. And that was my mental state at the t...

Parasomnia Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 Dream Theater A 16th gripping display of prog metal from the masters of the genre.

March Of The Unheard Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2025 The Halo Effect The Swedish death metal band serves up an intense, melodic second LP.

One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2024 Marilyn Manson Social commentary from a visionary of macabre fantasy.

The Last Will And Testament Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2024 Opeth For their 14th album, Swedish prog wizards Opeth created a concept record around the reading of a will. Partly inspired by a talk-show segment and partly by the massively popular TV show   Succession , Opeth guitarist/vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt decided to write about an inheritance with a twist. “I stumbled upon the idea of putting the whole story as it would’ve been written in a legal document, like a proper old piece of paper with paragraphs like, ‘My daughter will get the country house,’ and things like that,” he tells Apple Music. “But it’s more like a confession of sorts, where the patriarch reveals secrets about himself, his paranoia, and his regrets. And some of these secrets will immediately affect his children in an existential kind of way.” The Last Will and Testament   also marks Åkerfeldt’s return to the death-metal vocal style of Opeth’s early days. “I wanted to bring back the screaming vocal, but at first, I f...

Negative Spaces Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2024 Poppy From the uncanny valley to full-on metal, Poppy shreds on her sixth album.

Exhibition Of Prowess Album ∙ Metal ∙ 2024 Kublai Khan TX

Rite Here Rite Now (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2024 Ghost The appropriately theatrical soundtrack to the Swedish metal act’s concert film.

You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2024 Knocked Loose “Every song accomplishes something unique.”

Self Hell ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2024 While She Sleeps Metalcore’s boundaries get reshaped with hip-hop, electronica, and Britpop.

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition) ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2024 Judas Priest Rob Halford talks through all the tracks on Priest’s 19th album.

The Mandrake Project (Deluxe Edition) ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2024 Bruce Dickinson

Omens ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Lamb of God “We’re being sold this doom and gloom. That’s wonderful fodder for metal.”

The End, So Far ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Slipknot “This album is another extension of boundaries.”

Patient Number 9 ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Ozzy Osbourne “If I don’t know what I’m doing now, I shouldn’t be doing it.” Listen in Spatial.

The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Megadeth “Death, taxes, and Dave Mustaine coming through any kind of hardship.”

Zeit ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Rammstein The German industrial overlords return—in Spatial Audio.

  Voyeurist ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2022 Underoath

  Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2 ALBUM ∙ METAL ∙ 2021 ICE NINE KILLS