Released 25 years ago, this wildly unconventional heavy metal album turned its band into global rock stars—and remains a ...

Before Bohemian Rhapsody made Queen superstars, their first three albums delivered crushing riffs, prog experimentation and ...

Six landmark 1995 heavy metal albums from Death, At the Gates, Down, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, and White Zombie proved the ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

The album produced five singles that received heavy radio play, including “Dr. Feelgood,” “Kickstart My Heart” and “Without ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

William Shatner has been bringing his thespian-trained, Shatneresque magic to other people’s songs going back to his 1969 alum The Transformed Man, that featured his cult classic version of “Lucy in ...

Here are 10 essential rock and metal '80s albums you should own on vinyl. The '80s were a really interesting time in heavy music because that was when rock and metal really started splintering off ...

Rob Halford of Judas Priest got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet his idol when he collaborated with Dolly Parton in ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

A heavy metal band is going on hiatus after wrapping up its most recent tour. Ghost is taking a break, lead singer Tobias ...