We have begun tracking how many monthly listeners hard rock and heavy metal artists have been getting on Spotify. Where did we get this data? It's all publicly available on artists' pages. Please note ...

One of the world’s leading guitar brands has produced a documentary series on legendary guitarist Tony Iommi. The first ...

Who are the 'Big 4' of masked rock and metal bands? There's a rich and storied history of heavy bands going beyond imagery within the music to punch up and complete their vision. Even without masks, ...

Though Seattle’s grunge bands scrubbed L.A.’s hair metal bands from MTV in the early ’90s, some of them were influenced by the bands they replaced. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard recently revealed how ...

A crowd gathered around David Fisher as he slammed his hammer into the warm copper, creating sharp lines in the metal that would transform the clear surface into what appeared to be an intricate ...

Lemmy Kilmister onstage with Motörhead in 2015. When you think of a metal band, you most likely imagine one with four or five members. After all, vocals, bass, drums and at least one guitar is the ...

As a result of the ever-changing definitions of music genres, there are quite a few rock bands that were once considered metal, but aren't anymore. We've argued numerous times that heavy metal, as a ...

A really funny thing happened a month ago — MAGA folks online got really upset at GWAR. For the uninitiated, GWAR is a heavy metal art project that loves creative shock rock. On stage the band members ...

Jake is a voice actor, freelance writer, magazine curator, community radio DJ, dark ambience composer, and curry connoisseur. After starting an English degree in university at 18, he began writing ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...