Two metal acts from Fresno and Spain bring their current tandem tour to Sunday when Haunt and Hitten take the stage at the Bottom of the Hill with local openers Blackwülf.

Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal ...

Then, in the 1980s and into the 1990s, artists like Fates Warning, Queensr che, Savatage, and especially Dream Theater ...

Midnight pay homage to the punk and metal of their hometown on the ripper "Cleveland Metal." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

AC/DC's 'Back in Black' goes up against Van Halen's '1984' in the finals of UCR's Best '80s Album March Madness bracket.

A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

There are many ways to play the guitar, and certainly many Legendary Guitarists, such as Chet Atkins, Joni Mitchell, and ...

Legends Black Sabbath are widely regarded as pioneers of heavy metal music, but the iconic band originally went by a completely different name - and it got them into some trouble ...

At 81, Jim McCarty loves playing the greatest hits of The Yardbirds, but he knows today’s fans also like to hear tales of the ...

From Siberian black metallers Grima to Texan metalcore heroes Catch Your Breath, loving hardcore heroes Church Tongue and Melbourne deathcore champs Mélancolia, these are the bands you need to hear in ...

In February of that year, EMI released the Metal For Muthas compilation, one that gave the whole NWOBHM concept a major-label ...