Heavy metal has its roots in the late 1960s and the emergence of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple. It's a genre of rock music noted for a monumental sound characterized by distorted ...

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 ...

"It was: let's break all the rules, let's get as extreme as we can get." Hulu has unveiled the official trailer for a rock documentary / music history special event called Into The Void, taking us ...

A heavy metal fan’s way of seeing the world stems from a mix of skepticism, intensity, and brutal honesty. It’s not about ...

Heavy metal and country music are not a match made in heaven. To the majority of music fans, they seemingly hold nothing in common and juxtapose each other in a plethora of different ways. However, ...

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 ...

Jeremy Swist, a lecturer in the classical studies department, has combined two of his longstanding interests by resarching heavy metal music’s frequent use of the symbols and leaders of the ancient ...

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time. By about ...