Heavy metal has always been more than just a music genre, and it’s a culture, a movement, and for many, a way of life.

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Credit: Ned Wakeman Saxon frontman Biff Byford has been belting his heart out over heavy metal thunder since Jim Callaghan ..

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all you folks that don’t like fun in your metal — Japanese kawaii-metal band Babymetal announced this morning that they’re releasing a new album on June 13 titled Metal Forth. Not only will it be ...

“Where it’s at now… First of all, when we first sat down, we have a very, very simple goal, and that’s to make this the greatest day in the history of heavy metal,” Morello explained.