Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2000s were a wasteland for guitar heroes. Nu metal's seven-string groovers had little time for plank-spanking pyrotechnics, ...

A popular German power metal band was quite shaken up when multiple members suddenly left the group, all at the same time. The band has gotten back on its feet, though, and has been born anew with ...

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Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep track ...

Top 20 Greatest Metal Bands of All Time Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most successful and influential groups in the history of metal music. Thrash and death ...

Horns up! There is nothing like listening to insane guitar riffs, heavy bass, soaring, even growling vocals, and a powerful drum beat. Even better, much of metal music is based on classical theory.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...