Although the band was formed in 1982 ... The heavy riffs and screechy vocals made for a terrifying combo. In many ways, Venom changed the game for extreme metal bands as a whole.

The triumphs, the bottlings, the rucks, the rain – long-running festival Monsters Of Rock changed hard rock and heavy metal ...

Many bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM for short ... Satan," which made it clear which side they were on. By 1982, Iron Maiden had gone through three lead singers, and ...

Metallica attracted young and old heavy metal fans to its performance at the JMA Wireless Dome Saturday, including those ...

Judas Priest is one of heavy metal’s most important bands — the ultimate defenders ... and ensuing hit albums like ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ (1982), ‘Defenders of the Faith’ (1984) ...

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heavy bass, soaring, even growling vocals, and a powerful drum beat. Even better, much of metal music is based on classical theory. Who are the top five metal bands of all time? Unfortunately ...

According to Rock N’ Roll True Stories, a large portion of the videos the network was showing in 1984 were from rock and metal bands ... titled Heavy Metal Mania. The show ran for around ...

The former drummer for a legendary heavy metal band is dead at 73. Les Binks, who was a member of Judas Priest during a key stretch in the 1970s, died “peacefully” at a hospital in London ...

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 ...