Fred Phillips’ look back at the Best of 2024 in metal and hard rock includes albums from Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Kittie, Sebastian Bach and others.

This year has been lousy for a lot of reasons, but as this Best of 2020 list shows, hard rock and heavy metal were not among them.

10 early favorites, plus some great stuff to look forward to later this year.

This long-awaited follow up is, in some ways, superior to their debut album.

There’s little, if any, redeeming value to the message. And yet I can’t get the song out of my head.