Here are the 31 best rock and metal songs of the 2020s, from 2020 to 2025. The decade is already half over and the deeper we ...

Another week, another 18 new rock and metal tours that you can potentially check out! Lead the way this week, we’ve got a ...

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 ...

Iron Maiden was announced as one of more than a dozen inductees in the Rock Hall’s 2026 class during Monday night’s episode ...

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 ...

In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 Hard Rock ...

Every year, countless rock and metal artists dress up for Halloween and share their spooky season costumes across social media. This year was no exception, as Halloween 2025 (which fell on a Friday) ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...