Prior to this, he cemented his name in the heavy metal music scene in the ‘80s as one of the founding members of the iconic ...

These are Ronnie James Dio's five best doom metal songs outside of his two stints in Black Sabbath. Leaving Sabbath in the mix would simply make this too easy of a task and there's some hidden gems ...

Has the heavy metal era passed? Many fans of the genre would laugh in your face if you ask them this question about a rock music genre that probably has the most sub-genres around and has, since its ...

Heavy metal and country music are not a match made in heaven. To the majority of music fans, they seemingly hold nothing in common and juxtapose each other in a plethora of different ways. However, ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

For Independence Day, Nate Wilkinson donned a militia uniform and fired a musket to Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me." YouTube This gives heavy metal a whole new meaning. Nate Wilkinson of Ashland, Ohio ...

Of all the millions of songs that have been written since the dawn of time, only one can claim to have laid the foundations for what would become Led Zeppelin. Beck’s Bolero was recorded in 1966 as ...

Hello, longtime readers and people who accidentally clicked on this post, i.e., most of you. Here we are, once more, knighting the Metal Song Of The Summer. Last year, we asked you if metal could even ...

This 2001 track from Slipknot doesn’t lack any of the band’s telltale rage, but it is, nonetheless, a breakup song. And it works. While many breakup songs are sappy or focus on a cheesy level of ...