Plenty of heavy metal acts have achieved astronomical success and elevated the medium over the past half-century, but only the biggest and boldest innovators can lay claim to the "Big 4" of heavy ...

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

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 ...

Were The Who the first ever heavy metal band? Singer Roger Daltrey seems to think so, as he relayed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. The vocalist lays out his reasons and even cites a ...