Metallica would realize these ambitions on future albums, as would thrash metal contemporaries such as Death Angel, Exodus, ...

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 ...

Let's face it: 2023 has been absolutely packed year for new music. From the return of Ville Valo in January with Neon Noir right up to this week's HEALTH record, with some of metal's heaviest hitters ...

Scoring Hulu’s Into the Void presented a unique challenge for composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson: how to capture the raw ...

Gojira's fire-fueled performance at the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France (July 26) was a massive win for metal. Now, what does it mean for the genre's future? That's the question we aim to ...

Imagine: You’re on tour and you hear a song that gets its hooks into you. When you’re in the van singing it with bandmates, does that song connect a little deeper? When you play that song before ...

14 songs that were heavy metal before it became a genre ...

Metallica and the Eddie Munson character might be out of the picture in the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things,” but judging by the show’s latest trailer, released today, heavy metal most ...

No matter how old they get or what new genres of music they work into their rotations, metalheads never really lose their love for heavy music. Sometimes, all it takes is the right riff or the right ...

Riot Games enlisted Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante as the singer of the video game 2XKO's cinematic theme "Ties That Bind." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

Nashville singer-songwriter Madi Diaz is out with her new album. Fatal Optimist an introspective album that is her most stripped down, acoustic record to date.