On May 29, 1983, the four members of LA rock band Quiet Riot realised they were on to something big... It was ‘Heavy Metal Day’ at the US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernadino, ...

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 metal scene is wildly fragmented, but fans can and should get back to their roots by listening to these albums from start ...

One of the ongoing mysteries of my adult life is why I don’t like heavy metal anymore. Back as a young teenager, distorted ...

With a little over a month left to go of 2023, we're still seeing plenty of brilliant albums pop up on the calendar, even as the threat of end of year lists looms. In a year that began with Ville Valo ...

Metallica's formative Master of Puppets album was released on March 3, 1986, and quickly became the most influential and critically acclaimed album in the heavy metal genre. There are few bands who ...

Forty-four years ago today, a landmark album took Iron Maiden to the top of the chart in the United Kingdom for the first ...

The world of metal is as vast as ever, and devouring all the great metal released in a single year is virtually impossible. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of the 55 best albums of ...

British heavy metal legends Judas Priest just released their 19 th studio album, Invincible Shield, this past week and, in doing so, they supposedly set a new record in heavy metal history. According ...

After decades in the commercial wilderness, metalmusic is currently enjoying a sizable renaissance. With both Ghost and Sleep Token enjoying number 1 albums in the United States for the first time in ...

The mighty Khemmis is back after working on their follow up to 2021’s Deceiver over the last couple years and today we’ve ...

In December, I wrote a column defending music websites and publications that publish year-end lists before the end of the year. I justified this for three reasons: 1) December is mostly bereft of ...