While bands like The Who ... debut that solidified what we now recognize as heavy metal. But were they truly the first? This video explores the earliest distorted blues, the proto-metal of ...

Formed in Wichita and now based in Lawrence, the band Split Lip Rayfield is celebrating 30 years together in 2025. However, ...

Our list of the best song by 11 big hair metal bands is woefully overdue. We've already listed the heaviest song by 11 big hair metal bands, the best ballad by 11 big hair metal bands and the ...

Here are 11 of the most underrated albums by some of hair metal's biggest bands. When we talk about hair metal, the conversation usually circles around the same handful of albums. Whether it’s ...

which boasts the highest number of heavy metal bands per capita in the world, roughly 80 for every 100,000 people, according to the Encyclopaedia Metallum. The genre is a national obsession ...

This year, I’m highlighting six of the more insane acts in the heavy scene that played The Alternative ... In other words, keep an eye out for these bands. You know shit’s gonna get serious when a ...

The best metal albums with female vocals are a topic that is not often brought up in the community. Most people often mention ...

Carla Harvey is raising a toast to those legendary wreckers in “Hell or Hollywood,” the second single from her new the Violent Hour project alongside Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, who co-wrote the ...

The two found common ground in the work of Philip Glass and Steve Reich, which determined the direction of Repetition ...

Dubbing himself Astennu, a name derived from a creature in Egyptian mythology, Stinson has had solo projects, worked as a sound engineer and played in various heavy metal bands, with the mainstay ...