The Queen of Heavy Metal announces an intimate U.S. celebration.

Formed in Arlington, Texas, in 1981, Pantera evolved from glam-metal roots into one of the most influential heavy metal bands ...

'80s heavy metal icon WARLORD is finally taking their thunder across North America.

Bruce Dickinson, frontman of the legendary 1980s heavy metal band Iron Maiden, began teasing his upcoming studio album in ...

This sudden retirement startled fans, leaving the remaining members of Twisted Sister with no choice other than to cancel the group's upcoming 50th anniversary tour. Although news of his worsening ...

Jay Jay French issues a statement.

“We were on the radio in Seattle, and we’d have friends that would go, ‘That’s not you guys. That sounds like something from Germany or the U.K.’ And we’d go, ‘No, no, no, that’s us.’ And they’d go, ...

Here are 10 producers who defined the sound of metal in the 1980s. The rise of hard rock and heavy metal in the '80s coincided with major changes in how heavy music was not only recorded and mixed, ...

Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums of the 1980s and the 90 best of the 1990s! The sounds and styles that were pioneered and popularized across these two decades is mind-boggling. The guitar ...

Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...