Forbes recently published their list of the 30 Best Rock Bands of All Time, but there is some metal representation in there and it's worth noting how these metal icons stack up against some of the ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

You might be surprised to find that in Forbes' newly published 38 Greatest Metal Bands list that the publication actually gave a very positive and solid representation of extreme metal, with over ten ...

Blazing out of the fires of heavy metal and adopting the pace and aggression of the burgeoning hardcore movement, thrash metal was the defining sound of heavy music in the 1980s. That entire movement ...

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

These heavy metal legends launched back in 1981 and they’re still touring today. James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are the only two original members left in the band unless you count Kirk Hammett, who ...

In 2001, Slipknot ended their most depraved and aggressive album with a title track that pushed that vibe as far as possible. Iowa is a disturbing horror story of necrophilia that torments you for 15 ...

It’s a new year, and that part of the new year where we are past those best-of-previous-year album lists. Now that the dust and recency bias has at least somewhat settled, we can look ahead to the ...

Despite a magnificent, state-of-the-art heavy metal production job, and being superior to anything released by Maiden in ...