Last August, thrash metal icon Dave Mustaine announced the end of Megadeth. After one final album, the band’s seventeenth, ...

Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...

Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

On The Riffs That Taught Me, Jacob Schmidt of Defeated Sanity revisits formative cuts from Suffocation, Symphony X, and ...

We’ve got a YouTube legend on deck for this week’s edition of Gear Factor. Justin Whang, from his Whang! YouTube channel and the metal band Jynx, joined us to play some of his favorite all-time riffs.

Discover the 10 metal bands that left an indelible mark on the genre with just one groundbreaking album. From death metal to ...

The rhythmic heavy metal slasher VR game God Of Riffs finally has a release date as it's coming to Meta Quest this September. Developed by Boss Music Games and published by Vyersoft, the game will ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...