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.

Alternative rock bands in the 1990s shunned the idea of being rock stars, but many became alt-rock guitar heroes nonetheless.

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

The crowd inside Franklin Music Hall Saturday night was, in many respects, a standard mass of heavy metal mayhem. Pumping fists, brutal mosh pits, a man the size of an NFL linebacker charging to ...

Sure, you can unironically stan Deftones. But real music enjoyers can't rock with Korn or any of the other nostalgia-proof acts of their ilk. It’s the fact that they cannot be rehabbed that has always ...

Ice Nine Kills will perform at the city's OVO Hydro on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, as part of their A Work Of Art UK tour. The rockers are known for their hit tunes including A Work of Art, A Grave ...

Meet Knocked Loose spin-off spinkickers Church Tongue, Siberian black metallers Grima, Texan metalcore mob Catch Your Breath and Melbourne deathcore brutes Mélancolia ...

Japanese metal band Babymetal have announced a North American leg of their 2025 world tour, which will bring them to Canada this summer for a trio of shows in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band — I came across an album I really ... while still being wholehearted adherents of the black metal aesthetic. In particular, journalist Kim Kelly has done ...

Metal bands can be heavier and less comfortable ... Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Yet, I do love the elegant aesthetic of the material, and good leather often looks better and better as ...

He was beaten to death by a fellow inmate in 1994. Legendary death metal band Suffocation included this song inspired by serial killer Dennis Rader on their 2008 self-titled album. Few other bands ...