On September 16, Mastodon kicked off the Poisonous Weapons Tour with a night of eclectic heavy music at Hard Rock Live in ...

Has the heavy metal era passed? Many fans of the genre would laugh in your face if you ask them this question about a rock music genre that probably has the most sub-genres around and has, since its ...

Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...

Heavy metal is no stranger to songs about evil, the devil, the occult, and so on. These topics caused such a fuss for years that censoring or outright banning of albums became a regular topic of ...

Though only six tracks long, Darkthrone’s 2019 album promises an extreme dedication to the power of the riff. The genre-flipping Norwegian band plan to give fans a mix of old school heavy and extreme ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1992 Heavy Metal Hit Named Among Greatest Guitar Riffs of All Time – The Guitarist Was Murdered The author of one of the greatest ...

The 1970s was an interesting time for heavy metal. Black Sabbath helped birth the genre at the very beginning of the decade, and a host of other legendary bands followed suit. Along with Black Sabbath ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...