Some guitar solos are remembered because they fit perfectly into a song. Others become the song. Megadeth’s “Hangar 18” falls ...

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The "forbidden chord," popular in heavy metal, is full of dissonance and creates a sense of doom or unease. Here's a look at ...

His church thinks electric guitars are the devil’s work. But Father Tabakis is on a mission to change that – with Paradise Metal, a religious dubstep album that outdid Daft Punk and Aphex Twin ...

Some guitar riffs are so iconic that they need only a few notes to be instantly recognizable. For Megadeth, that riff is "Symphony of Destruction" ... without question. More than 30 years after its ...

When you start playing guitar, "power chords" are almost always the first thing you practice. If you look at the sheet music for rock or punk songs, it is not uncommon to find songs that consist ...

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Across distant systems and fractured realities, new forces begin to take shape. This issue of Heavy Metal brings together stories driven by conflict, transformation, and discovery. At the center of it ...

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 ...

When veteran talent manager Kenny Gabor of Unchained Management, Music and Media began feeling the effects of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, he turned to the music he had loved for years. “Music like ...