While Black Sabbath virtually created the heavy metal genre, it was Judas Priest who gave it a shape and focus in the mid-70s. Theirs was the music springboard from which others would catapult into ...

This 2001 track from Slipknot doesn’t lack any of the band’s telltale rage, but it is, nonetheless, a breakup song. And it works. While many breakup songs are sappy or focus on a cheesy level of ...

Pantera delivered a heartfelt tribute to the iconic frontman of the legendary English heavy metal band Motörhead, Lemmy. The ...

Here are the 11 goth metal songs guaranteed to make you cry. But first… let’s share a few honorable mentions and related picks. We recommend Green Carnation’s one-track album Light of Day, Day of ...

The busy mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti has made a career out of versatility: “I think generally people should not do only one ...

"It was: let's break all the rules, let's get as extreme as we can get." Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for a rock documentary / music history special event called Into The Void, taking us ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

How did heavy metal — or just metal, as it's colloquially called — become the term that identifies the outgrowth of rock music that's more powerful and aggressive, with distorted guitars, thunderous ...

Has the heavy metal era passed? Many fans of the genre would laugh in your face if you ask them this question about a rock music genre that probably has the most sub-genres around and has, since its ...