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

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 ...

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 ...

It is difficult to find a band in the early 80s with a more extreme music approach. In that regard, that also helped to scare parents at the time. The heavy riffs and screechy vocals made for a ...

joining the New Wave of British Heavy Metal alongside bands like Judas Priest and Girlschool. Songs like “Hell Hath No Fury” and “The Party Never Ends” captured 80s fans, along with ...

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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has discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a ...

A heavy metal molecule with Berkeley roots Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block. One row above the actinides are the lanthanides. The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn ...