Rob Halford of Judas Priest got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet his idol when he collaborated with Dolly Parton in ...

Metallica’s Black Album transformed heavy metal in 1991, sold over 35 million copies worldwide, and sparked a debate that continues in 2026.

Released on Feb. 13, 1970, the seven-track record featured the singles "Evil Woman" and "Wicked World." Charts-wise, Black ...

How 1980 transformed heavy metal as Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Saxon and Diamond ...

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 ...

It's been a long while since horror doyen John Carpenter made a movie. But since The Ward in 2010, Carpenter has started up a second career as a musician. He's released four albums of 'Lost Themes' ...

Popular music's biggest-selling milestones are well known to include hard rock, but heavy metal has also found its way into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mastodon reached out to Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler for a collab on their new album, and he agreed, sending back a ...

Here are 10 essential rock and metal '80s albums you should own on vinyl. The '80s were a really interesting time in heavy music because that was when rock and metal really started splintering off ...