“That’s the American way of naming traditional heavy metal.” Cans also delved into his personal history, discussing his time studying music in Hollywood. Originally from Sweden, he relocated to the ...

Hammerfall singer Joacim Cans has distanced the band from the ‘power metal’ tag in a new interview. Cans, 54, says in an exclusive conversation with Metal Hammer that ‘power metal’ is simply “the ...

If rock & roll has historically been a boys club, then heavy metal is the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Thankfully, that’s changing. Of all the genres, though, metal is definitely the laggard. And unless ...

(TheBRHM.com) My metal listening recently has been more on epic metal of the 1980s. A lot of the acts come from traditional ...

Heavy: The Story of Metal is a four-part documentary special that aired on VH1 in 2006. The series focuses on the origins, subgenres, and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to ...

Since there have been so many different eras of heavy metal, we picked four groups to represent the "Big 4" of '90s metal. Metal has branched out and changed a lot since Black Sabbath introduced it in ...