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Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep track ...

Have three of the world’s biggest metal bands just… all swapped drummers? It’s looking likely that Slipknot, Sepultura and Suicidal Tendencies have all just traded tubthumpers, after ex Slipknot ...

Blackbraid, aka Sgah'gahsowáh, begins his first-ever national tour this week. Living in the southern Adirondacks is a star among black metal fans. In the next couple months, his profile within that ...

Emmy Award-winning composer Bear McCreary loves music that goes big. He certainly spans a wide range of dynamics and styles in the scoring work he does for film, TV, and video games, but he revels in ...

After decades in the commercial wilderness, metalmusic is currently enjoying a sizable renaissance. With both Ghost and Sleep Token enjoying number 1 albums in the United States for the first time in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...

“We are here to make coffee metal,” Nathan Explosion (Brendon Small) growls in the premiere of the mid-2000s’ Adult Swim series, Metalocalypse. “We will make everything metal. Blacker than the ...

Apple Music has completed its 10-day rollout of their 100 Best Albums list and it only features one metal album. Fortunately, there’s quite a lot of rock on the list to help ease the pain. As much as ...

Metal: Hellsinger recently launched to critical acclaim as a DOOM-inspired first-person shooter powered by an absolutely incredible metal album. Creating such a memorable soundtrack was no easy task, ...

Ever since humans started creating music, we haven’t been able to live without it. Music is used for many purposes; it can make us move, relax, scream or cry and it can significantly influence the ...