Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

The roots of the Thin Lizzy story go back to the mid-1960s, where two school pals, Philip Lynott – the illegitimate son of a ...

OK, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there’s a whole big world out there of ’70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath — even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The ’70s ...

Black Sabbath is dead, and Black Sabbath will never die. Both of these things are true. More than 50 years ago, the Birmingham, England-founded quartet pioneered heavy metal music with songs like “War ...

Back in the day, when he was the drummer for a heavy metal band, Frank Hall was everyone’s friend. And Frank has a story for every occasion. He was there back in the 70s when Ozzy Osbourne – whom he ...

Mark Kelehan grew up listening to Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss and Metallica. But he didn’t add new bands to his rotation for 20 years as adult life kept him busy, including with four daughters. Then, the ...

Heavy metal music has become a niche genre to an extent. While there are a couple of bands that have broken into the mainstream and garnered wide appeal, the majority of heavy metal bands seemingly ...

Their most recent album, Power Up (2020), sparked their current massive world tour. The band also announced last month that ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...