Columbus welcomed more than 140 hard rock and heavy metal bands for this year’s Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival May 14-17. Held Thursday through Sunday at Historic Crew Stadium, the four-day ...

Credit: Tunde Valiszka Up-and-coming UK heavy metal band Tailgunner are splintering, as founding bassist Thomas Hewson takes ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

The founder and guitarist of a popular American heavy metal band is getting pushback for some recent comments he made.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WARLORD is set for a long-awaited milestone this year as the heavy metal band embarks on its first-ever North American tour.

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 ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

When it comes to fantastic guitar moments, heavy metal music certainly come to mind. It doesn't get much better than the ...

In the late 1970s, British rock bands reacted against punk rock and new wave music. They dressed in robes, wrote fantastical lyrics, and dropped the blues from their heavy guitar riffs. Still, some of ...

The Black Parade Tour came from an unlikely source several years before the first show of the run. Vocalist Gerard Way ...

Here are 11 of the best love songs by some of the biggest bands in heavy metal. Metal bands aren't always known for their ability to be touchy feely, but on more than one occasion, heavy metal has ...

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist explains the “punk rock guilt” shared by many bands in the 1990s. New bands formed out of a love for Kiss and Black Sabbath but also Minor Threat, Fugazi, and ...