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.

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

Given that anger is a hallmark of heavy metal ... band,” sang frankly and expressively about colonization, poverty, and the loss of Indigenous traditions. Its politics and performances at ...

If anything, Ween itself is a genre. What other band has successfully incorporated elements of funk, country, prog-rock, heavy metal, and punk into their sound? We can’t think of anyone but Ween.

And that was during the new wave of American heavy metal with bands like Lamb Of God and Killswitch Engage. That’s what it feels like right now. I’ve experienced that old gatekeeping ...

While rising from the ashes of traditional rock ‘n’ roll and stadium rock, metal symbolised something more earth-shattering, allowing resonance to be blended with more personal interpretation. In ...

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 ...

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