Picking the best metal and hard rock songs each year is never an easy task. Unlike pop music, where singles take the spotlight, finding the year’s best heavy tunes can take us off the beaten path. But ...

Read on to see the 15 best diamond-selling hard rock and metal albums ranked worst to best.

Here are the best rock and metal albums and songs of 2023. Perhaps the most plentiful year in new music yet, 2023 saw the release of a couple thousand albums and a few thousand singles all falling ...

The '80s saw the emergence of hard rock and metal, bolstered by a new format -- the music video. The arrival of MTV provided a visual outlet unlike anything that had come before it, making the rock ...

For many headbangers on Long Island, hard rock and heavy metal isn’t just music, it’s a lifestyle. "Once it gets in your blood, it’s like a drug," says singer Paul Terror, 55, of East Meadow. "It’s so ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new ...

In places like a roller rink in Lake Hills and an old supermarket in Kirkland, local heavy metal bands once ruled a vibrant scene in the Northwest. And now, a new – and very large – book attempts to ...

Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4 ...

The Crue’s music has been heard before in a spot for Kia, so why not another automobile manufacturer? On their YouTube channel, Acura declares: “Five new worlds. Five distinct drivers. One journey ...

Skinflint. Vulvodyinia. Metal Orizon. Wrust. Demorogoth Satanum. You probably haven't heard of these names, but they're just some of the many African heavy metal bands featured in Edward Banchs' new ...

Itineraries listed on backs of band tour T-shirts back then didn’t just include the biggest markets. Hard-rock and heavy-metal’s commercial heyday represented pop music at its most populist. From the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--It's the wee hours on an unseasonably balmy November morning. Inside the DNA Lounge in the hip South of Market neighborhood, the festively attired crowd attending the annual Scorpio ...