Ranking the best albums of any genre is not easy, and metal might be particularly difficult. At least, BBC Music tried.

Our resident metalhead Robin Askew ranks the greatest heavy metal LPs ever committed to vinyl Well, this was a tough one.

Metallica's formative Master of Puppets album was released on March 3, 1986, and quickly became the most influential and critically acclaimed album in the heavy metal genre. Master of Puppets was the ...

Next month, seasoned death metal outfit Six Feet Under will release their 15th album Next To Die. Their follow up to 2024’s ...

No false modesty here ...

But our overall winner for the week were black metal godfathers Venom, Lay Down Your Soul tapping into the primordial nastiness that helped spawn metal's most evil subgenre in the first place. This ...

This album has aged so well.

A chart-topping 1992 power ballad helped close the door on the hair metal era as the genre’s dominance on the Billboard ...

For over a decade, Lamb Of God had one of the most perfect discographies in metal this side of the millennium. Not only were they continually changing, experimenting and evolving, they were always ...

There is no exact recipe when it comes to the best thrash metal cover songs. But then you also have Sodom, who just sound like they're having fun while covering a surf rock classic from the 1960s. The ...

The once-maligned genre of nu metal has since been re-evaluated as the important, influential, unique moment for music and culture that it always was, and it’s been everywhere lately, so we’ve been ...