Crank up the volume and prepare to headbang! Join us as we count down our picks for the most influential, important and ...

Nuclear Messiah is an unprecedented "supergroup" of artists, who collaborated on the new album Black Flame from Cleopatra ...

New top 20: WatchMojo ranks 20 heavy metal albums that shaped the genre, led by Black Sabbath’s 'Paranoid' and including milestones from Metallica, Judas Priest, Slayer, and Slipknot. Proto-metal ...

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William Shatner has been bringing his thespian-trained, Shatneresque magic to other people’s songs going back to his 1969 alum The Transformed Man, that featured his cult classic version of “Lucy in ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

The rock gods must be pleased.

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

Is it possible to put out a head-banger at 94 years old? William Shatner, the legendary “Star Trek” actor, is giving it a shot. Shatner released a statement Thursday saying he’s planning to release a ...

These ‘70s rock records were heavy enough to get mistaken for the genre before anyone knew what the genre even was.

In December, I wrote a column defending music websites and publications that publish year-end lists before the end of the year. I justified this for three reasons: 1) December is mostly bereft of ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...