Loudwire Staff

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.

"Falling down the stairs — I’m not a doctor — doesn’t kill you. There may have been other issues, and it breaks my heart."

What a year! We'll be listening to these for a long, long time.

Recapping the very best rock and metal albums of the year.

Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström joins Loudwire Nights’ Chuck Armstrong for a live chat about the new album, 'Don’t Go in the Forest,' plus an exclusive vinyl variant you can only get through Loudwire.

Tens of thousands of rock songs have been released between 2000-2024 and these 25 are the very best.