Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-’60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with … Continued
After leaving Ceremonial Oath to form In Flames, founding member and guitarist Jesper Strömblad saw this … Continued
Formed in 1973, the British hard rock outfit Bad Company was a supergroup comprised of ex-King … Continued
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Aerosmith was one of the most popular hard rock bands of the ’70s, setting the style … Continued
After he left Metallica in 1983, guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine formed the thrash metal quartet Megadeth. Though … Continued
Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to … Continued
Led Zeppelin was the definitive heavy metal band. It wasn’t just their crushingly loud interpretation of … Continued
Def Leppard are an English hard rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy … Continued
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among … Continued
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1969. The core line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, … Continued
When they agreed the unwritten law that time-honored artists with brilliant track records get less creative … Continued
John Michael “Ozzy“ Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer-songwriter and occasional actor, whose career … Continued
AC/DC are an Australian hard rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. The band is … Continued
Savatage formed in Florida in 1978 as Avatar, led by brothers Jon (vocals) and Criss (guitar) Oliva. They changed … Continued
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, … Continued
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In … Continued
The band released several commercially successful albums in the 1970s such as Uriah Heep Live (1973), but … Continued
Out of control and savagely relentless, Hate Eternal continue to show why Florida is the undisputed home of death metal on their fifth…
Morbid Angel’s first album since 2003′s Heretic is bound to divide listeners. Those who love the band’s earliest records — Altars of Madness…
Cold took a six-year break after the release of 2005’s A Different Kind of Pain but they did not use the half-decade hiatus…
Coming to the conclusion that The Unquestionable Truth was so powerful it never needed the promised second…
Florida metalcore outfit Underoath’s seventh studio album arrives on the heels of the departure of its last remaining original…
This album isn’t a failure by any means, but it’s not going to make old-school Atheist fans very happy, either. Unquestionable…
With musical threads running all over the metal world, the Absence blend chugging death metal with European influences on…
The Autumn Offering is the fifth and final studio album by American heavy metal band The Autumn Offering. The album…
On their seventh studio album, Miracle, Nonpoint continue trudging down the same alt-metal path that they started on…
Florida-based black/death metal band Order of Ennead have a lot of talent in their ranks; guitarist John Li is a brilliant shredder, while…
In their early years, Savatage was one of the premier death metal acts in America and their debut album…
Signing to Atlantic Records after The Dungeons Are Calling, Savatage seemed ready to break, and, for…
Fight for the Rock was Savatage’s blatant attempt at commercial success after being prodded in that…
Streets picked up where Gutter Ballet left off, taking Savatage’s interest in progressive metal into a…
Poets & Madmen, Savatage’s 12th studio album and fourth concept album, finds the band continuing to…
Gutter Ballet marked the transition between Savatage’s earlier straight-forward, fantasy-themed metal and…
Over 15 years into their career, Savatage refused to stay still — if anything, the group continued to…
With Dead Winter Dead, Savatage returned to rock opera, a format the band had explored previously on…
Going through a lot of personnel changes can make a band’s output very erratic — in the ’80s and ’90s…
With band members, critics, and fans unhappy with the commercialism of Fight for the Rock, Savatage began…
A much heavier effort than the preceding Sirens (although recorded at the same sessions), The Dungeons Are Calling was…
With the departure of Jon Oliva as lead vocalist (but not as keyboardist or writer) for Savatage, the band…
Jon Oliva’s Pain have endured now for some seven years and four albums…and that’s just referring to the band bearing that name, never mind the man’s personal life…
On their ninth studio album, Kamelot once again bring their epic sound to bear on unsuspecting ears with Poetry for the Poisoned. Like their other albums, Poetry…
