A year later, they'd slimmed down, found a new name and invented heavy metal. Few bands are so inextricably linked with a ...

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These metal bands took the sound Black Sabbath created and ran with it, creating a subgenre filled with heavy riffs and dark ...

Forty-two years ago today, Metallica released their debut album. The release would play a major part in shaping thrash metal.

The gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy ...

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Ozzy Osbourne, who helped pioneer the heavy metal genre as a frontman of the rock band Black Sabbath, and later became a TV ...

Wahlquist, who for nearly 50 years led the heavy metal institution Heavy Load, has been called Sweden’s first true rock star, and Heavy Load is widely considered the country’s first metal band.