Having conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, but there's no denying the genre has struggled for the past decade. From ...

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, ...

The metal world is as vast as ever, and 2024 was full of countless great albums from all across the metal spectrum, by bands from all over the world. We included some of our heavy faves on our list of ...

Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums of the 1980s and the 90 best of the 1990s! The sounds and styles that were pioneered and popularized across these two decades is mind-boggling. The guitar ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

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 ...

As the curtain falls down on 2025, we close the year on what has been a glorious year for heavy metal, and indeed what can even go down as one of the greatest in the annals of metal history; ...

The next action-packed FPS in the vaunted Doom franchise slows down the pace for a different flavor of gothic carnage. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last ...