Mayhem, Lord Of The Lost and Skindred are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Let's face it, 2024 was a massive year for metal breaking through to the mainstream. Even without new releases from the likes of Metallica, Slipknot or Iron Maiden, there was a stunningly impressive ...

Some bands liksuch ase Metallica and Megadeth have chosen the more serious route when recording cover songs over the years.

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When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these ...

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Ozzy Osbourne, the self-styled Prince of Darkness, has long been a towering figure in the world of heavy metal, from his ominous beginnings fronting Black Sabbath in the late ’60s to his scintillating ...

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J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Both Def Leppard and Guns N’ Roses were still one year away from glam metal masterpieces. But 1986 was a crucial year for making hair metal something impossible to escape. So here are three songs you ...