A good riff is one of heavy metal basics and this punchy, raw and uncomplicated Ray Davies riff is one of the first of its ...

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 ...

Heavy music has reached a golden age of sorts. The family tree of genres continues to branch out, with artists finding new ways to expand upon the styles of the past. For example, Spirit Adrift are a ...

Paul McCartney revolutionized rock music and laid the foundation for heavy metal, influencing iconic bands like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.

Here are the best rock and metal songs of 2023 so far! Wow, what a year it's been already, right? With over half a year's worth of albums already out and quite a lot announced for later summer and the ...

How did heavy metal — or just metal, as it's colloquially called — become the term that identifies the outgrowth of rock music that's more powerful and aggressive, with distorted guitars, thunderous ...

Hard-rock and heavy-metal isn’t elitist’s music, it’s the people’s music. The music of Camaros, pro sports events and streaming TV synchs. And in that way, as American as it gets, even if British ...

We use the terms “legend” and “icon” to describe influential musicians. And there are some years in music history where it almost feels as though something supernatural has taken place. If somewhere ...

Hard rock and heavy metal band Ghost just ended a four-year drought on the Billboard 200 chart for rock music. The band’s latest record Skeletá has officially hit no. 1 on the chart, outperforming ...