Metal is a music genre often associated with a lot of aggression which makes sense given the heavy electric guitar riffs, the loud and bassy screaming vocals and the nature of metal concerts as a ...

Consequence's list of the Best Metal & Hard Rock Songs of 2025 includes standout tracks from Puscifer, Deafheaven, The Pretty ...

The "Big 4" is a phrase that's long described the four bands that served as the foundation of thrash metal — Metallica, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist explains the “punk rock guilt” shared by many bands in the 1990s. New bands formed out of a love for Kiss and Black Sabbath but also Minor Threat, Fugazi, and ...

The conventional wisdom of the grunge revolution goes like this: Spandex-clad hair bands lived high on the hog until 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 23, 1991. When the clock struck midnight and Nirvana's ...

As a result of the ever-changing definitions of music genres, there are quite a few rock bands that were once considered metal, but aren't anymore. We've argued numerous times that heavy metal, as a ...