Classic Metal Band Announces Final Album and Farewell Tour originally appeared on Parade. When it comes to American metal, there are the "big four" bands, the pillars of headbanging, that laid the ...

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Metal and horror have always gone together beautifully. The monstrous vocal approach taken by countless artists has helped shape heavy music into what it is today, perhaps by the exact monsters these ...

At first, it's a somewhat familiar rumble: the dense, overpowering surge of what sounds like heavy-metal riffage, a rolling thunder rattle and roar suggestive of armored vehicles crashing into ...

"Cliff was definitely the gateway to a lot of that classical stuff," Ulrich told Rolling Stone. "When he started talking about classical music in '83, '84, James [Hetfield] and I weren't — or at least ...

Though goth metal is a tiny niche in the U.S. ― easily topped by Evanescence, playing the Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater on Sept. 11 in Tuscaloosa ― there's more across the pond, especially in Scandanavia ...

In this conference we gather investigators and artists to critically examine how heavy metal music and its culture (or scenes) have interacted with, been inspired by, and commented on global ...

Heavy Metal has been in existence as a musical force and genre of rock music for the last four decades. Some might argue that the glorious heyday of the '80s and '90s scenes for heavy metal music ...

The past few years have seen vinyl come back in a big way. Seemingly every new album gets pressed on a series of limited-edition colored records, and fans eagerly add them to their collection. While ...

The phrase “Disney music” often conjures up images of doe-eyed princesses belting out Broadway ballads. But a new album comprised of classic tracks from the House of Mouse re-imagined with power metal ...