Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: commercial success and artistic vision often do not go hand in hand. In fact, they often work against each other. In the case of industrial metal act Fear ...

There are two wolves inside of popular music that are embroiled in a never-ending battle. One wolf feeds on cultural importance, societal relevance, and how much a band or song means something to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

The once-maligned genre of nu metal has since been re-evaluated as the important, influential, unique moment for music and culture that it always was, and it’s been everywhere lately, so we’ve been ...

When it comes to the music landscape, one can say that metal ruled the '80s, presenting a cultural turning point and an influx of talent as the genre grew and expanded. Being caught up in the "Satanic ...

Over the past decade, pop and modern hip-hop have completely taken over the music industry in record sales and on music streaming services. But what genre has been completely overshadowed by pop and ...

The amount of 'female-fronted' bands have multiplied in the last decade, and the term is still as lazy as it was a decade ago.

Welcome back. With the world in great shape and no potentially life-changing national decisions looming on the horizon, I thought we could use this stress-free stretch of placidity to answer an ...

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has continued to shine as a ‘Renaissance man’ of today’s heavy music scene. Within the last three years alone, Heafy has managed to release two back to back critically acclaimed ...