Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Plenty of licensed games are bad, but the worst sin any game can commit is to be boring. While the licensed games I’m about to talk about pretty much all have their flaws, some more glaring than ...

KYOTO — “Shikkoku,” which uses the character for “lacquer” and means “jet black,” is the perfect word to describe the deep and lustrous surface of lacquerware. Maki-e is a technique in which gold ...