The 1990s grunge boom didn't quash everything else in the rock sphere, especially not metal. Though Nirvana and others pushed the '90s buzz for Seattle-derived alt-rock to ubiquity, many a metal band ...

In a recent conversation with Kahler Guitar And Bass Bridges, Kreator's incombustible frontman, Mille Petrozza, opened up about the band's challenging journey through the 1990s, a decade that ...

Metal changed forever in the 1990s. Where glam and thrash had dominated the second half of the 80s, the new decade would see them swept aside by a host of new scenes, some of which had their roots in ...

What qualified as metal in 1995 was a grab bag for sure. After the fallout from the popularity of grunge, metal went back underground but was poised for a return led by nu metal. While not all of ...

The “post-grunge” label gets tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? To keep it simple, post-grunge refers to the type of grunge music alt-rock bands were making in the 1990s through the ...

Metal has evolved in many ways over the years, and during a recent chat with SiriusXM Octane host Jesea Lee, Asking Alexandria guitarist Ben Bruce professed his love for the nu metal era of music, ...

For a certain generation of readers, understanding the cultural impact of Guitar Hero is not a difficult task: it triggered a cultural explosion that made guitar music cool again and birthed a new ...

Nu metal may not be as big as it once was during its heyday in the late 1990s, but the spirit of the genre is still well and alive, especially for Enrique ‘Rekay’ Myrick. TEnrique “Rekay” Myrick ...

The first coming of nu metal, as much a subgenre as a suburban raison d'être, both overpromised and overdelivered on its hostile id. The riffs? Sloppy and sloshy. The bass? No less than five strings ...