Loudwire Staff

Loudwire picks the 20 Best Rock Albums of 2016!

Loudwire counts down the 20 Best Metal Albums of 2016!

Loudwire counts down the Top 70 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1970s.

Click through the gallery to count down the Top 50 Hard Rock + Metal Debut Albums!

With chiptune audio, classic video game characters and genre-defining '80s heavy metal acts, we and the Filthy Frackers bring you 'Monsters of Rock.'