Picking the best metal and hard rock songs each year is never an easy task. Unlike pop music, where singles take the spotlight, finding the year’s best heavy tunes can take us off the beaten path. But ...

Here are the 11 best progressive black metal bands of all time! Since its inception in the early 1980s, black metal has been known for a few key – and at times, unsavory – characteristics (such as ...

With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues. Vocalist Mark Garrett (center) with fellow members of the ...

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the '80s — is known for its hotshot guitar players and over-the-top showmanship. But ...

During Anime Los Angeles, held Jan. 4-7, the LA stage pulsed with the electrifying energy of Broken by the Scream as the metal idol group stormed onto it. Before they rocked the stage, their journey ...

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 ...

Here are the 11 best progressive black metal albums of all time! Like death metal, black metal is probably not a subgenre you’d immediately think would work well with elements of prog rock. Yet, as ...