From Agriculture to Ancient Death, Paradise Lost to Pissgrave, Corpus Offal to Coroner, here are the best metal albums of ...

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Death metal continues to thrive in 2025. With subgenres ranging from melodeath and technical death metal to deathcore, ...

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

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...

Casey Chong presents a selection of Die Hard riffs… The Die Hard on a [fill in the setting] subgenre first made its mark ...

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This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...