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Crank up the volume and prepare to headbang! Join us as we count down our picks for the most influential, important and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No wonder that come August 12, 1991, metalheads queued around the block at record stores in every city in the civilised world – ...

William Shatner has been bringing his thespian-trained, Shatneresque magic to other people’s songs going back to his 1969 alum The Transformed Man, that featured his cult classic version of “Lucy in ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

New top 20: WatchMojo ranks 20 heavy metal albums that shaped the genre, led by Black Sabbath’s 'Paranoid' and including milestones from Metallica, Judas Priest, Slayer, and Slipknot. Proto-metal ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

A popular English heavy metal band will release its first new album in five years. Loathe will release “A Stranger to You” on ...

Star Trek legend William Shatner surprised sci-fi fans with a bizarre announcement. The 94-year-old actor said he will not only be releasing more music, but a heavy metal album. Shatner made the ...

In December, I wrote a column defending music websites and publications that publish year-end lists before the end of the year. I justified this for three reasons: 1) December is mostly bereft of ...

Paradise Metal by Father Dionysios Tambakis, released in April, gained global acclaim and became one of the best-selling ...