Metallica's Kirk Hammett will share the stories behind some of his favorite guitars in a new coffee table book, 'The Collection: Kirk Hammett.' ...

Trap metal grates on the ears like early black metal and distorts traditional hip-hop beats to create uncomfortable levels of over-modulation. It's as anti-social as modern hardcore and delves into ...

Noble and Godlike in Ruin is their 20th album, following 2023’s Miracle-Level, also released via Joyful Noise. The album is ...

Players of the new warframe will be able to use the Flare Varleon protoframe, turning them into a smoldering rocker with ...

Remember when you could actually be unreachable? Join us as we count down the cultural touchstones that defined Generation X ...

Artists almost have the necessity to put their all into their work, but once these albums were completed, bands would have rather never gone back to it again.

Benson Boone kicks off Rolling Stone's Future of Music showcase at SXSW, along with excellent sets from Hannah Bahng, Laila!, jasmine.4.t, Duplexity.

Our list of the Best Hair Metal Album of Every Year From 1981 to 1991 proves that before it was relegated to the dustbin of ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Maiden’s second album, Killers, followed in 1981. It included Innocent Exile, the ground-zero Maiden song. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Adrian Smith, who had replaced Dennis Stratton.

Heart's classic song "Barracuda" has been covered several times, but here are the heaviest covers, ranked by how metal they are.

Bailey Zimmerman was 12 years old when he attended his first concert by the hair-metal band Tesla. It would be his only ...