How did heavy metal — or just metal, as it's colloquially called — become the term that identifies the outgrowth of rock music that's more powerful and aggressive, with distorted guitars, thunderous ...

Tributes have been paid to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg, whose death at the age of 52 has been confirmed. "Tomas passed away this morning following complications related to his ongoing cancer ...

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time. By about ...

Somewhere between the worn temples of old-world metal and the rave-lit coliseums of tomorrow, Babymetal have spent 15 years building a world that feels both impossible and oddly inevitable. Metal ...

Kawaii Metal: A music genre combining cute J-pop elements with heavy metal instrumentation. Fox God (Kitsune-sama): The mystical entity in BABYMETAL's mythology who guides their destiny. The One: What ...

Let's just get this out of the way up top: No, metal isn't dead. If you look around the underground today, there are plenty of thriving pockets: death metal, black metal, doom, thrash, sludge, etc.

The question is very closely related to asking what rock band has sold the most albums. But the answers are actually different. Further, to answer to which metal band has sold the most albums depends ...