Just like there's no definitive answer as to how Earth formed, there is truly no definitive answer as to which band "invented" heavy metal. Groups began releasing heavy albums left and right starting ...

Susan Smith and Vicki King started a regular heavy metal karaoke night during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when bands ...

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Calling any artist "the biggest of all time" is definitely a loaded statement. How do you measure the size of their impact? Is it their global popularity or how many chart certifications they've ...

Musical genres are becoming increasingly more subject to interpretation as hybrids appear on the scene, deriving influences from multiple musical stylings. What exactly is "heavy metal?" Pose the ...

Though Seattle’s grunge bands scrubbed L.A.’s hair metal bands from MTV in the early ’90s, some of them were influenced by the bands they replaced. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard recently revealed how ...

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

The British are coming? Nah, they never really went away. Whether it be the prototypical likes of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, game-changing extremists Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower and ...