Enter Sandman

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We might have lost metal’s founding fathers, but the next generation proved that the music lives on

Screwball escapades on the Lower East Side; bittersweet glory on Broadway; trauma in Tehran; and more…

Featuring tributes to curry and fantasy battles involving… rats?! here are all the records our critics loved this year