While Black Sabbath virtually created the heavy metal genre, it was Judas Priest who gave it a shape and focus in the mid-70s. Theirs was the music springboard from which others would catapult into ...

This 2001 track from Slipknot doesn’t lack any of the band’s telltale rage, but it is, nonetheless, a breakup song. And it works. While many breakup songs are sappy or focus on a cheesy level of ...

Heaviness and speed are two things attracting fans to bands like Iron Maiden or Slayer. It’s also what keeps some music fans away. But hearing other artists interpret heavy songs within their own ...

If ever there were a movie genre suited to heavy metal, it has to be kaiju. Filled with gigantic monsters rampaging through major conurbations and leaving trails of destruction in their wake, it’s ...

"It was: let's break all the rules, let's get as extreme as we can get." Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for a rock documentary / music history special event called Into The Void, taking us ...

Ozzy Osbourne was the premier voice in heavy metal. When he summoned all the terror in his being to sing “What is this which stands before me?” on the 1970 song ...

What are some of the most metal-sounding songs by grunge bands? Although grunge is considered a subgenre of rock, it was undoubtedly influenced by heavy metal as well. Drop-tuned guitars are one of ...

The crossroads where metal meets mariachi are few and far between, but the combination feels like a perfect match made in some diabolical alternate universe. Take the mariachi singers, trained to have ...