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These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025
By Stephen Hill published
Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be

The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
By Rich Hobson published
From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
By Metal Hammer published
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop and Opeth's awesome 14th album
By Dave Everley published
When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did

‘He said, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson isn’t on Opeth’s album. Ian Anderson is
By Rich Hobson published
Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson regret that people focus so much on one element of their sound, when there’s so much more to The Last Will And Testament

Vote for the best metal album of 2024
By Rich Hobson published
Whether you've loved Judas Priest or Linkin Park, Poppy or Kerry King, we want to know what albums have excited you most in 2024

The 10 best prog metal albums of 2024
By Matt Mills published
Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year

Every Opeth album ranked from worst to best
By Rich Hobson published
From 1995's Orchid through to 2024's The Last Will And Testament, we ranked every Opeth album in order of greatness
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