Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Album covers by Slayer, Celtic Frost, Suicide Silence and Morbid Angel. We’ve previously looked at bands who changed up their ...

As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer ...

Black Sabbath have all the trademarks for heavy metal, but Ozzy Osbourne considered these hard rockers as the true progenitors of heavy metal.

Here are 10 metal groups who got better once they revised their sound! As metal fans, we can be extremely critical of our favorite bands experimenting with new genres and dumping the style(s) that ...

Philly heavy band Witching will follow their 2020 debut LP Vernal (and their standalone 2021 single “A Piece Of My Story Dies With Them”) with their sophomore album, Incendium, this Friday (10/27) via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rising North Carolina-based metal band with roots in Fayetteville has come a long way from its humble beginnings in a high ...

Heavy metal and country music are not a match made in heaven. To the majority of music fans, they seemingly hold nothing in common and juxtapose each other in a plethora of different ways. However, ...

"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 ...

Metallica photo session in a dressing in Berlin, 1992. Within the heavy metal scene Metallica has long held a unique standing amongst fans and critics. No other band in the genre has achieved a highly ...