The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

Then, in the 1980s and into the 1990s, artists like Fates Warning, Queensrÿche, Savatage, and especially Dream Theater essentially melded those prog rock attributes with the fiercer attitudes of heavy ...

To help navigate the smoke-filled labyrinth that is stoner and doom metal, Heavy Psych Sounds founder and Black Rainbows frontman Gabriele Fiori gave us a list of 10 bands you absolutely have to ...

But this pursuit is what also inadvertently brought me head-to-head with metal ... “Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era,” as RidingEasy describes it. In purely musical terms, these bands ...

New bands formed out of a love for Kiss and Black Sabbath but also Minor Threat, Fugazi, and Bad Brains. And the ethos between heavy metal and punk rock created an ethical dilemma. He said that ...

The 50 Best Metal Albums of the 2000s (2000-2009) The 2000s was an incredibly strong decade for heavy metal of all subgenres, new and old. Here are the 50 best albums from that beloved era.

At 2.5 billion years old and weighing in at 2.5 tonnes, the banded iron formation is so heavy that Museum engineers had to reinforce ... rock within the specimen are made up of black and red bands of ...

Imagine, as a lark, putting together a heavy metal band with the goal of ... But like so many of Asia’s metal bands—including BABYMETAL, Japan’s kawaii metal outfit, who make a guest ...