Forty-three years ago today, on July 5, 1983, Los Angeles crossover pioneers Suicidal Tendencies released their self-titled ...

But who needs sun, sea and socialising, anyway? We've got a brand-new week of heavy metal bangers to listen to! Before we ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

British heavy metal legends Judas Priest just released their 19 th studio album, Invincible Shield, this past week and, in doing so, they supposedly set a new record in heavy metal history. According ...

A pioneering ’70s British heavy metal band, central to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, returns with a new ...

The turn of the century saw a ton of innovation in extreme metal, particularly in regards to tone, songwriting structure, and quality of production. Despite being all but kneecapped in the ’90s due to ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

William Shatner has been bringing his thespian-trained, Shatneresque magic to other people’s songs going back to his 1969 alum The Transformed Man, that featured his cult classic version of “Lucy in ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

William Shatner Confirms Working on a Heavy Metal Album ...

What's the best metal album of each year of the 1990s? Let's find out! Toward the end of the previous decade, metal was reaching its commercial peak while also blazing new trails in the underground.

In December, I wrote a column defending music websites and publications that publish year-end lists before the end of the year. I justified this for three reasons: 1) December is mostly bereft of ...