Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.

Reed’s work confronts not just one, but two historically male-dominated spaces: metal and classical music. (She is classically trained in soprano sax, but also plays guitar and bass.) Her reception in ...

Vox Realis has already starred on The Kelly Clarkson Show, amassed thousands of social media followers and jammed with a ...

Fifteen years into a storied career that’s crisscrossed the boundaries of black metal and shoegaze, Deafheaven has found a way to once again outdo themselves. “Lonely People With Power” feels like a ...

The likes of Trivium and Opeth had banner years in 2005, but these master-strokes proved there should have been a bit more ...

But this pursuit is what also inadvertently brought me head-to-head with metal music in ways I never ... these bands were more spare-sounding — mostly guitars, bass, drums, and vocals ...

Agriculture are one of the best and most interesting newer black metal bands around ... them onto an enormous stack of distorted guitars and basses. Broadly speaking, these songs try to articulate ...

How Japanese ingenuity transformed Western music from within. Tina Weymouth and David Byrne of Talking Heads, performing in ...

The likes of Trivium and Opeth had banner years in 2005, but these master-strokes proved there should have been a bit more ...

“Magnolia” has heads-down black metal riffage, but also a passage of chiming guitars that would not be out of place in a Siouxsie and the Banshees song. “Revelator” uses deftly worked ...

Metallica attracted young and old heavy metal fans to its performance at the JMA Wireless Dome Saturday, including those ...