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

Of Ozzy’s solo work, Perry Mason from his Ozzmosis album is at the top of my list. The Black Sabbath guys were a hippie love ...

Both shredders were thrust into the limelight when they became the Prince of Darkness’s right-hand man, and he was there to ...

In the wake of making the troublesome latter album, Osbourne bolted the group in 1977 and embarked on a solo project, ...

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

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

The Spinal Tap II trailer is finally here – and this is what Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls will be playing ...

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

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.

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal inspired haymakers before the band’s MTV fame. (Queensrÿche’s proggy ‘86 sophomore LP “Rage for Order” is the connective tissue between.) ...

Former Mastodon guitarist, vocalist and co-founder Brent Hinds apparently isn’t on amicable terms with his former band mates. Hinds split from the band back in March, surprising many fans at the ...

The former drummer for a legendary heavy metal band is dead at 73. Les Binks, who was a member of Judas Priest during a key stretch in the 1970s, died “peacefully” at a hospital in London ...