Loudwire Staff

See all the new releases coming each week of 2026.

This Memorial Day, spend some time with the lyrics to these 15 rock and metal songs about soldiers and appreciate the sacrifice of those who've served.

The 2020s are racing by. Let's catch up on the decade with the best rock and metal songs so far.

There's no arguing that it's been a great decade for rock and metal. These 25 2020s albums prove it!

Over 50 years of metal's best!

On replay all year.

Out of thousands of songs released in 2025, we narrowed it down to the 13 best rock songs and ranked them for you.

It was a great, wide-ranging year for hard rock music and here we rank the best rock albums of 2025.

Your 2025 hard rock and metal album release calendar is here!

Metal is in a healthy place as we enter the back half of the 2020s.