Our picks for the Heaviest Song by 11 Big Hair Metal Bands proves the subgenre packed a harder punch than its detractors were ...

Ozzy Osbourne's song “Goodbye to Romance” shows the tender side of a vulnerable artist with a Beatles-like instinct for melody. It follows “Crazy Train” on his solo debut Blizzard of Ozz (1980), and ...

Here are 12 classic black metal albums turning 30 years old in 2025.

Ozzy and Dio may be Sabbath’s best-known singers, but these bangers with less-famous voices deserve their share of the love ...

H aving conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, ...

Metalocalypse sadly ended with the 2023 film Metalocalypse: Army Of The Doomstar, but that doesn't mean that mastermind Brendon Small is done making metal blockbusters yet! According to Small in an ...

In the new issue of Metal Hammer, we choose five rising artists and put them on the cover. This year, your New Heavy cover ...

Even after 50 years and a near-fatal accident, British metal’s Gallagher brothers still have enough attitude to give young ...

And while it would be easy for someone who got to witness a world in which musicians actually made a living to just shit on how things are done these days, Lombardo said during a recent interview with ...

Korpiklaani and Ensiferum will headline Folkfest of the North at the Gothic Theatre on Sunday, March 9.

A groundbreaking heavy rock band that has shaped the sound of punk and metal for over 40 years, the Melvins bring their reunited two-drummer line-up to the Catalyst in Santa Cruz Tuesday night.

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, ...