Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Formed in the early 80s but languishing in obscurity after the tragic death of their frontman, Hell were one of metal’s great ...

The 21st century’s reigning champions of death metal — melodic death metal, specifically — The Black Dahlia Murder perfected their lethal style on their third offering, 2007’s Nocturnal.

Maynard James Keenan has spent the majority of his career operating in the progressive metal sphere, but one unusual album ...

Heavy metal might not be the friendliest genre in the world, but some albums prove that the genre can sell in droves around the world.

If somewhere in the cosmos there’s a heavy metal god wearing biker gear, controlling earthly events with a Flying V, the year 1980 must have been important to the long-haired deity. Before social ...

Written and directed by Jeon Ah-hyun, the South Korean short film chronicles a local metal band’s quest to find their ...

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Polish death metal band Decapitated in a sauna at sunrise. Or been serenaded with ...

By the time it was released (by Earache alone) in June 1996, the Columbia deal was dead and so were the band ... what black metal was actually becoming. Did 1995 see metal in a kind of identity crisis ...

Slipknot rocker Sid Wilson and his partner Kelly Osbourne have made a low key arrival at Sydney Airport, as he and his ...

Xdinary Heroes)” stands out with its heavy metal vocals and intense guitar ... Formed in 1996 under the name Yoon Do-hyun Band, YB has become an iconic rock band known for hits like ...

The New York Dolls were forerunners of punk, and the band's style — teased hair, women's clothes and lots of makeup — ...