Forbes recently published their list of the 30 Best Rock Bands of All Time, but there is some metal representation in there and it's worth noting how these metal icons stack up against some of the ...

Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep track ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

The conventional wisdom of the grunge revolution goes like this: Spandex-clad hair bands lived high on the hog until 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 23, 1991. When the clock struck midnight and Nirvana's ...

As Jack Black has eloquently stated, "You can't kill the metal; the metal will live on." Since its inception in the late-'60s/early-'70s, metal has grown and branched out into dozens of subgenres, ...

The following list of the most underrated song by 11 legendary hair metal bands proves that the genre was more than hits and filler. Hair metal – or glam-metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to ...

Recently, the brutal/technical death metal band Cryptopsy announced the re-release of their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh, featuring some special guests. Billy Strings is among the list of ...

Blood Incantation is arguably the biggest band in extreme music right now. The Denver quartet of guitarist/vocalist Paul Riedl, guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky, drummer Isaac Faulk and bassist Jeff ...