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
The Offspring‘s metal-inflected punk became a popular sensation in 1994, selling over four million albums on … Continued
Out of all the post-Nirvana alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, Green Day were … Continued
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
One of the few rock bands from Taiwan to gain exposure in North America, Chthonic are a melodic death metal group whose music employs elements of…
With “Norrøn livskunst”, SOLEFALD looks to the early 1900-century Norway, when a young nation zealously engaged in exploring its…
Florida metalcore outfit Underoath’s seventh studio album arrives on the heels of the departure of its last remaining original…
Moonlight Waltz is the ninth studio album by the Italian extreme gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires. A music video for…
The 13th album by German thrash/death metal institution Sodom deviates not a bit from the pattern established over its dozen…
While Cradle of Filth’s Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa is reportedly — according to frontman Dani Filth — a companion concept album to…
French black metal mystics Deathspell Omega play things close to the vest. They don’t tour, their lineup is purely theoretical…
If ever a band was in danger of overstaying its welcome, that band was the Ukraine’s Drudkh, whose no-tour, no-press, no-bathroom-breaks…
At one point, Dimmu Borgir were a black metal band. Somewhere around the time of 2001′s Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, though…
Disclaimer: all highly subjective claims accusing Abigail Williams of being symphonic black metal poseurs will be ignored in the course…
There’s something particularly apropos about the pitch-black whirlpool depicted on the cover of Watain’s fourth studio album, 2010′s Lawless Darkness, since the fast-rising…
Just when you think every possible rock & roll subgenre has already been mixed, matched, and spliced with every other available subgenre beyond any…
German black/folk metallers Equilibrium have so far provided us with two rather enjoyable, if not very original albums, 2005′s Turis Fratyr and…
Who says playing it safe is the only way to make it in the music business? At least for American black metal institution Nachtmystium, widespread recognition has…
This album, the fifth by long-running Swedish thrash act Witchery, is the first to feature new vocalist Legion, formerly of Marduk. That’s in…
8 is the eighth full-length studio album by Canadian/Indonesian avant-garde metal band Kekal, announced on June 23, 2010…
The band went to Sweden’s Studio Mega in late 2009 with producer Johan “the ant” Örnborg to record A Forlorn…
German multi-instrumentalist Markus Tümmers makes lightly blackened folk-metal under the name Falkenbach; on some of his early records, it was a one-man…
Stand Up and Fight is the third album by the Finnish symphonic / folk metal band Turisas, released on February 23, 2011 through…
Enslaved fans who wondered just how far the Norwegian black metal legends would push the steady progressivification of their sound might have…
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…
Some of the most interesting musical hybrids have come about when unlikely forms of music were successfully combined. A perfect example is folk-metal; who…
Black metal bands, by definition, are essentially born out of a desire to challenge society with uncompromising music and shocking behavior, and they’re…
To the dismay of several generations of metalheads, Celtic Frost’s celebrated new millennium reunion was to be a brief one, and the legendary curators…
