Because there's the rub: Motorhead united the tribes, inspired extreme metal (there's a reason we chose Overkill as their ...

As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

This is the start of our top 75 of our essential 100 (or so) tracks to come out of Scotland in 2025. It marks the 11th year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

The obituary pages track the deaths of the famous and the mighty, but in 2025 we witnessed a seemingly unending procession of ...

Among thousands of new metal songs that came out in 2025, these 13 have been on maximum repeat.

One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

2025 was an awesome year for us. We released our third studio album, Te Rā, and got to tour not only in our home country Aotearoa, but also the U.S. – twice! First with Kerry King and Municipal Waste, ...

It was only their second-ever single, but it made a massive impact – and Brock still doesn’t really know how it happened ...

Here are our 11 most anticipated prog rock and prog metal albums of 2026!

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

The Nine’s co-founder and percussionist asks, “What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying ...

Old Skin Wails of Ten Thousand Sludge, sludge, baby. Old Skin, the Fort Collins band that blares at the altar of resurrected ...