Metal benefitted greatly from the mainstream in the 80s and, to some degree, in the 90s. There were a lot of bands that ...

Sadly, there were no white labcoat-clad scientists pouring rockers’ sweat into beakers or quantifying the face-melting capabilities of a heavy metal riff ... s a critic.) Music, like all ...

Gone were the days of hair metal ... African music continued to become a power player in the worldwide ecosystem in the 1990s, with superstars like Ali Farka Toure working with legendary American ...

Pacific Symphony and the Arts & Learning Conservatory partner to present "Symphonic Soul: A Celebration of African American ...

Thrash metal pioneers Exodus have parted ways with frontman Steve "Zetro" Souza for the third time since the early '90s.

Grand Magus’s JB Christoffersson, Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and mediaeval history lecturer Simon Trafford explain why heavy ...

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, ...

Coal Chamber, a popular nu-metal band, has canceled more than 30 shows on its agenda for March and April 2025, citing health problems experienced by its lead singer, Dez Fafara.

Chicago avant-garde psych-metal band Yakuza, who’ve been going strong since 1999. Their 2000 debut full-length, Amount to Nothing, exhibits their beginnings in thrashy posthardcore and grind. Soon ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all ... it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.