Heavy music fans demand originality, then attack Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon, Linkin Park and other bands for evolving beyond familiar sounds.

Tom Morello recently appeared on Billy Corgan’s podcast The Magnificent Others to discuss 1990s Gen X rock bands. The Rage Against The Machine guitarist explains the “punk rock guilt” shared by many bands in the 1990s. New bands formed out of a love ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has long stood out as one of the most popularized alternative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans were shocked when Finnish heavy metal rock band Battle Beast announced on Monday that their lead singer, Noora Louhimo, was leaving the band after 13 years to pursue a solo career.

Heavy metal supergroups came together often in the 1980s, but one particular group did not last nearly as long as it should have. That heavy metal supergroup was Gogmagog. Never heard of them? You’re not alone there. Despite being packed with famous ...

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 genre, was "invented" when Black Sabbath released their ...

KABUL (Reuters) - On a dimly lit stage the godfather of Afghan rock prepares for the next song, as images of the French movie La Haine (Hate) flicker above and his audience is asked what song would they sing if they were lying in the gutter dying.