The Heavy Consequence staff selects the best metal and hard rock albums from an eclectic year of heavy music.

Windhand’s Eternal Return album arrives on October 5th.

It’s already been a strong year for hard rock and metal, but several noteworthy albums are yet to come in 2018.

The band will support the disc with a fall 2018 North American tour.

Electric Wizard, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Thee Oh Sees, festival co-founders The Black Angels, S U R V I V E, Parquet Courts, and Waxahatchee also playing 10th anniversary event.

The heavy metal renaissance is in full effect.

This year belonged to the artists hungry to tell the truth.

Three weedy bands treated the weedy city to a night of heavy riffs.

Virginia quintet deliver a minor masterpiece and the year’s finest doom metal offering so far.

Wolf Eyes, Frog Eyes, and Clams Casino — an unusual buffet, but an exhilarating bunch of tunes.

A diverse antidote to the overwhelming pop of the Grammy awards show.

A sound never truly dies, it just waits for someone to breathe new life.