These excellent bands are true heavy metal legends, with plenty of killer tracks in their impressive discographies... just ...

From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend ...

Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Midnight for their hometown ...

Two metal acts from Fresno and Spain bring their current tandem tour to Sunday when Haunt and Hitten take the stage at the Bottom of the Hill with local openers Blackwülf.

The 80s was an iconic era in music that spawned many outstanding hits, several of which weren't written the performers who ...

Hard rock and heavy metal have long had a love affair with the Vikings. Led Zeppelin arguably kicked the whole thing off with Immigrant Song in 1970, singer Robert Plant memorably wailing, ‘ Valhalla, ...

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

Ghost ’s Skeletá is one of the most anticipated metal albums of the year – and rightfully so. Once underground darlings of doom metal, Tobias Forge’s devil church have transformed into an ...

For a few strange years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, a novel phenomenon hung around the Billboard charts. It was called ...

AC/DC's 'Back in Black' goes up against Van Halen's '1984' in the finals of UCR's Best '80s Album March Madness bracket.

They might never have made it as big as some of their ’80s contemporaries, but what glam metal band Dokken lacked in chart-topping singles, they made up for in great songs, killer riffs, and stellar ...