Here are the 51 best rock and metal albums of 2025. We're officially more than halfway through the decade. It's already produced its own crop of new ascending stars and quite a handful of veterans who ...

Stopgap cash grab by the record company or the result of artist indulgence that can't be contained within the usual confines of a single LP? The double album has been both throughout its long and ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...

Without question, Metallica are the most formidable, popularized and influential band in the heavy metal genre. No other band in heavy music wields the same number of masterfully crafted albums or the ...

We’re halfway through 2024 and just posted a list of our 40 favorite albums of 2024 so far, which includes multiple genres of music, including metal. For even more metal, we’ve now put together a list ...

Beyoncé could bow out of music today, and she’ll have released enough music to explore for decades to come. But that’s not a worry — with the release tonight of “Cowboy Carter,” she’s onto the second ...

Taylor Swift is one of the most influential singers and songwriters of her era. Born in 1989, she released her first album in 2006 and toured with country acts, then gradually shifted to pop music.

Wayne Shorter, one of a few musical sages who left our earthly plane this year, had a standard take on the subject of finality. "To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything," Shorter, the ...

Our 21st Best Albums of the Year list, 2023 was one for the books. Recency bias out the window, this might very well have been the best year of music since 2016. From instant classics by breakout acts ...

Over the last handful of weeks, we’ve been positively debut album-pilled here at Paste. From our 21st century list to our recurring Saturday series of decades from the 1960s through the 1990s, we’ve ...

Travis Scott's long-awaited Utopia album is only two days away. The new LP will have a total of five cover arts. Over the past few days, the Texas rhymer has been rolling out the diverse album covers.

Two albums placed back-to-back on this list of the 50 greatest country covers epitomize how important album art was and is. Both covers speak to what's inside the physical package. For Travis, it was ...