The best European metal bands are a key component in the genre’s history and evolution. It is impossible to understand what metal is without these groups’ contributions. Whether it’s their success, ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

Since there have been so many different eras of heavy metal, we picked four groups to represent the "Big 4" of '90s metal. Metal has branched out and changed a lot since Black Sabbath introduced it in ...

Metallica’s James Hetfield delivered an unexpected festive treat that no one had on their Christmas bingo card. From the ...

"Europe was a little bit behind with the kind of support from the media. Later on, we had Headbangers Ball too, but it never went as big as in America." Schmier pointed to the sheer influence of the ...

Recently, the brutal/technical death metal band Cryptopsy announced the re-release of their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh, featuring some special guests. Billy Strings is among the list of ...

Before Billy Joel was a classy and sophisticated showman sitting behind a grand piano, he was a thick-haired heavy metal rock ‘n’ roller. Surprised? So are we, but it is true, as Billy Joel co-founded ...

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time. By about ...