An introduction to some of the women that broke down barriers in the heavy metal and hard rock music scenes. You can count the pioneering women musicians in heavy metal and hard rock on two hands.

Six years later, the term heavy metal crossed over into music through a classic rock song. Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild,” recorded in 1967 and released in 1968 on their first long-playing ...

Midnight pay homage to the punk and metal of their hometown on the ripper "Cleveland Metal." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

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A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

There are many reasons that can prevent a heavy metal band from reaching the heights of some of the greats, but these 10 ...

Mikal Gilmore writes about his dive into heavy metal music at age 73, following the 2024 election of Donald Trump ...

Musicians quit bands for all kinds of reasons, but these unforgettable, highly publicized rockstar exits will go down in rock ...

Then, in the 1980s and into the 1990s, artists like Fates Warning, Queensr che, Savatage, and especially Dream Theater ...