Original Features

Over 50 years of metal's best!

These '80s rock bands from the 'me' decade certainly had something for lots of you.

Initial LPs that blend high-pitched shrieks, gloomy atmospheres and prog metal complexity.

It's been a decade. How many of these rock and metal favorites from 2016 are still sticking with you?

Their '80s moments in the spotlight were fleeting, but should these acts have deserved better?

These bands dominated progressive death metal right out of the gate!

What was hitting as nu-metal faded and emo exploded? Let's take a look at the big rock and metal albums from 2006.

It was a year with grunge on the way out and nu-metal's explosion about a year away. Let's look at the transitional year of rock and metal albums from 1996.

There's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe.

The hair metal era exploded in a big way while some classic rock and thrash favorites were still going strong in 1986.