The tour — which is set to take place toward the end of the year — will celebrate half a century of Accept since the band ...

Sebastian Bach, the former lead singer for the 1980s metal band Skid Row, has been chosen to take over lead vocal duties for ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

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 ...

Nevermore made the official announcement of introducing three new members as they signed with a new record label.

Our resident metalhead Robin Askew ranks the greatest heavy metal LPs ever committed to vinyl Well, this was a tough one.

Heavy metal bands have not been known to be rule followers, but some tech has gotten in the way of the connection between the musicians and the fans. Because of this, metal giants Iron Maiden are ...

In community halls across Western Sydney young people are headbanging, crowdsurfing and forming mosh pits.

Though Seattle’s grunge bands scrubbed L.A.’s hair metal bands from MTV in the early ’90s, some of them were influenced by the bands they replaced. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard recently revealed how ...

Johannes Eckerström, singer of Swedish melodic metal group Avatar, has explained why his home country has given the world so many heavy bands. “In Sweden, post-World War II, there’s this kind of […] ...

As a result of the ever-changing definitions of music genres, there are quite a few rock bands that were once considered metal, but aren't anymore. We've argued numerous times that heavy metal, as a ...