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Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

In a year that had no rap songs in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 40 for the first time since 1990, rap thrived in so many other ways. This list of the 25 best rap albums of 2025 includes grand ...

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From the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack to career milestones for the likes of G-DRAGON, SEVENTEEN, JENNIE, MARK, NMIXX and more, enjoy the K-pop scene's best records. In 2025, K-pop albums became ...