Black Sabbath didn’t plan to start a new genre when they debuted in 1970, but their self-titled track is now seen as the place where metal began ...

Heavy metal didn’t appear overnight—it was the result of decades of musical evolution, from blues and rock to psychedelic ...

Judas Priest's Rob Halford was the latest guest on Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio program and discussed the band's long-waited return to the road, other projects in the works and the band's 50-plus ...

A music-streaming study has revealed that only hip-hop and pop artists really benefit from the system's payment model. Blues, jazz, and heavy metal bands frequently end up being short-changed by ...

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 ...

Guitarist Kerry King’s father gave him three choices when he was growing up. “Playing guitar was one, and I think karate was one,” Kerry King, 60, says via phone from his New York home where he was ...

Since its inception as a cult phenomenon in the ’60s and ’70s, heavy metal has become a genre of music that has gained a massive fanbase worldwide. Fans were instantly drawn to its aggressive sounds ...

“That whooshing noise at the beginning was a loop we made for Dime to play over,” bassist Rex Brown once told Metal Hammer. “And it was very repetitious and very fuckin’ annoying for a long while. He ...