Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...

Of all the millions of songs that have been written since the dawn of time, only one can claim to have laid the foundations for what would become Led Zeppelin. Beck’s Bolero was recorded in 1966 as ...

British-made heavy alloy. The champion of heavy metal has now awakened from a deep slumber. The long-awaited new work from ...

Heavy metal is no stranger to songs about evil, the devil, the occult, and so on. These topics caused such a fuss for years that censoring or outright banning of albums became a regular topic of ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...

What band wrote the first-ever heavy metal riff? According to Zakk Wylde, that honor goes to the legendary English power trio Cream. In addition to Cream, Benante points to Queen for their influence ...

While Sleep’s surprise 2018 comeback The Sciences united riff fiends worldwide in ecstatic glee, their recent surprise ...

From the late 1960s to 1970, three bands that would have a profound influence on later heavy metal appeared one after another ...

Finland-based metal band Beast in Black has found a well of inspiration in Kentaro Miura’s classic manga “Berserk.” ...

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