The Best Metal Albums of 2017

Metal will never, ever die; Not only because it’s a genre that constantly champions innovation and compositional evolution, but because it has served as a platform for marginalized perspectives and unorthodox voices throughout the entire globe since its creation. Besides,…

Melody on Music: Heaviness

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. In 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past installments…