Having conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, but there's no denying the genre has struggled for the past decade. From ...

Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums of the 1980s and the 90 best of the 1990s! The sounds and styles that were pioneered and popularized across these two decades is mind-boggling. The guitar ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

And some big-name heavy metal and hard rock bands, even some associated with hair metal, flourished alongside, or despite, grunge. These heavy metal albums not only survived grunge, but the first one ...

In the near or not so-near future,when you’re lying on your deathbed, you’ll reflect on things in your life that you’ve failed to accomplish: the kiss you never gave, the boss you never slugged and ...

I didn't think too hard about dedicating the second-ever edition of this column to Ragne Wahlquist. The late Heavy Load frontman left an indelible mark on heavy metal, in his native Sweden and beyond, ...