The 1980s metal explosion turned many bands into stars overnight as loud choruses and flashy music videos filled arenas and ...

The past few years have seen vinyl come back in a big way. Seemingly every new album gets pressed on a series of limited-edition colored records, and fans eagerly add them to their collection. While ...

Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica: the story of heavy metal contains plenty of big hitters. Lurking just outside the spotlight, ...

These 20 Rock Bands Helped Make the ’80s So Loud The 1980s gave rock music room to get bigger, louder, and stranger. Hair ...

In October 1979, US rock magazine Creem published a cover feature asking the provocative question ‘Is Heavy Metal Dead?’, and concluded that the writing was on the wall for the genre. Their judgment ...

Decades after its rise, heavy metal has found its place in mainstream music, but it didn’t come without a fight.

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 ...