How Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and more brought metal back from the dead ...

Plenty of heavy metal acts have achieved astronomical success and elevated the medium over the past half-century, but only ...

A heavy metal band is finally getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but won’t attend their own induction ceremony. Iron Maiden confirmed Thursday that its members will skip the Rock Hall’s 2026 ...

By 2025, she had completely shed her country roots for a hard rock/heavy metal sound with her first full-length album, “Black ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

Alternative rock guitarists aren’t often associated with heavy metal shredders. You might connect the dots between certain bands and Black Sabbath. But the pointy axes and two-handed tapping of many ...

After 21 years of eligibility and two failed nominations, the heavy metal giants would rather play shows in Australia than ...