Babymetal, Sleep Token and Machine Head are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Where does metal music come from and how did it get its name? In a technical sense, heavy metal was born in 1839. It’s a chemistry term describing a loosely connected set of metals defined as ...

F or some, the 1980s were about neon and new wave, yacht rock and wine coolers, wide lapels and pristine pop. For others, the ...

Death metal in a sauna, Lamb of God on the karaoke machine and 2am mosh pits – Kinza Shenn sets sail on a hardcore music cruise that out-rocks all others ...

All of this kept Black Sabbath in the crosshairs of worried parents, who saw them as the embodiment of heavy metal’s threat – a reputation the band wore like a badge of honor as pioneers of the genre.

But this pursuit is what also inadvertently brought me head-to-head with metal music in ways I never ... the sounds that evolved from that music. “Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era ...

we bring you just a few songs that inspired heavy metal. What was the lumpen, stomping riff that opened “Purple Haze” – and who was the madman who delivered this dissonant racket to the ...

Moberg argues that a Christian will, presumably, not need to explain themselves for listening to gospel or pop music, however they would need to provide an explanation as to why they listen to heavy ...

In February of that year, EMI released the Metal For Muthas compilation, one that gave the whole NWOBHM concept a major-label cachet, featuring Maiden, plus Praying Mantis, Angel Witch, Sledgehammer, ...

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