QUILCENE — The first Live Life Loud music festival will bring a heavy Washington-born sound to Quilcene this weekend. Trail blazers of expansive sound in metal music, the band Earth, will headline the ...

The crowd sways like starlings in murmuration as we wait for the show to start. The relaxed vibe belies the pandemonium about to be unleashed. Metal concerts are like that. To an outsider, they appear ...

Since there have been so many different eras of heavy metal, we picked four groups to represent the "Big 4" of '90s metal. Metal has branched out and changed a lot since Black Sabbath introduced it in ...