Heaviness and speed are two things attracting fans to bands like Iron Maiden or Slayer. It’s also what keeps some music fans away. But hearing other artists interpret heavy songs within their own ...

Thousands of years after the Bronze and Iron Ages, the true Metal Age dawned half a century ago. In 1970, Black Sabbath convincingly evoked the true essence of evil with the lumbering, three-chord ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

The 1980s was a prime decade for heavy metal music. From Metallica to Black Sabbath, and many others in between, bands were firing on all cylinders. The decade gave the genre some of its biggest hits, ...

“Here Comes The Bride” is from a Wagner opera, and Wagner was a formative influence on metal, so that means weddings are also metal, right? The worst part about weddings for headbangers is wedding DJs ...

The post Heavy Song of the Week: After the Burial Resurrect Themselves on “Nothing Gold” appeared first on Consequence. Progressive metal act After the Burial return this week with a double single, ...

We've seen rappers dip their toes in heavy metal. Sometimes it works great. For instance, T-Pain's recent cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" got a shout out from none other than Geezer Butler. But ...

Toronto-based duo Ducks Ltd. are releasing a new album, Harm’s Way, on February 9 via Carpark. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “Heavy Bag,” via a lyric video. Watch it below, followed ...

Making a good cover song isn’t easy, and most bands are lucky if they can simply do justice to the original. However, there's a short list of bands and musicians that have outdone the original song ...