All rock bands want to be loved. Some may claim that their only real concerns are creative and artistic, but the truth is that everyone who has ever picked up a guitar and written a riff wants to pick ...

Is there anything more compelling than being a diehard progressive metal fan? After all, the clue is in the name: this is a genre that, for decades, has refused to sit still, and every year its ...

Haken have built a solid reputation as one of progressive metal's rising stars over the past decade, but arriving at their sound didn't happen overnight. In this edition of Loudwire's Gear Factor, ...

Commit to keeping an open mind before you read our list of the best prog song by five hair metal bands. No, we're serious. We know as well as you do that the '80s glam metal boom was not necessarily ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Discover the 10 metal bands that left an indelible mark on the genre with just one groundbreaking album. From death metal to ...

Commit to keeping an open mind before you read our list of the best prog song by five hair metal bands. No, we’re serious. We know as well as you do that the ’80s glam metal boom was not necessarily ...