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There's no such thing as too much metal. Fortunately, heavy music's new class keeps plenty of huge riffs and rage-worthy choruses coming every week—and we've collected the best and most brutal of 'em here. Our editors regularly update this playlist. If you hear a track you like, add it to your library.

Handel was, for his day, one of the most cosmopolitan of composers, constantly absorbing national styles but then making them entirely his own. He composed a stream of magnificent operas, with Giulio Cesare enduing as one of the greatest. But he also wrote some now-much-loved orchestral works: the Royal Fireworks Music and Water Music were both written for major occasions in 18th-century London. His grasp of English may have always been somewhat approximate, but in works like Messiah (1741) and Jephtha (1751), he simply lifted the poetry into music of sublime expressivity.

A godfather of counterpoint and harmony, Johann Sebastian Bach dates from the Baroque period, though his music seems unable to be contained by any particular era. You may have encountered the <i>Goldberg Variations</i>, the <i>Brandenburg</i> Concertos, or his two great Passions—the <i>St Matthew</i> and <i>St John</i>—but there is always more to discover in his vast output. There are always new interpretive approaches to cherish too, in the recordings of performers as diverse as cellist Yo-Yo Ma, harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, violinist Hilary Hahn and conductor Simon Rattle. When musicians tire of complexity for its own sake, they often go ‘back to Bach’ to seek inspiration in the composer’s every note and to wonder at the boundless beauty tied up in music of such intricacy.