Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artwork for albums by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Ken Mode. Since it started, metal has been using sonic intensity and ...

How Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and more brought metal back from the dead ...

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 ...

From The Number of the Beast to Killers to Powerslave to Somewhere in Time, the definitive ranking of Iron Maiden's studio ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The turn of the century saw a ton of innovation in extreme metal, particularly in regards to tone, songwriting structure, and quality of production. Despite being all but kneecapped in the ’90s due to ...

Here is the best album by 35 legendary metal bands. This is a classic case of the best of the best, exploring more than 50 years of greatness in heavy metal and many representatives of its numerous ...

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 ...

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 ...