Animals as Leaders

What new rock and metal tours announced this past week will you be seeing?

Not every band needs a guitarist or a bassist. These rock and metal band's certainly don't.

New to the complex chaos of progressive metal? Then this overview is for you!

R.I.P.

It's a prog-metal dream tour.

Bow down before them!

There were tons of new albums this year and these are the 50 best.

It's all about the treble.

We're halfway there.

See which artists shaped the subgenres as we know them. These are the big four bands of 27 different rock and metal subgenres.

See dates, support acts and new album details.

The best of the best for a year filled with tons and tons of new metal songs.