Decades after its rise, heavy metal has found its place in mainstream music, but it didn’t come without a fight.

Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep track ...

The hills are alive with the sound of… metal music theater? Yes, indeed! While promoting his debut solo album Black Labyrinth, out May 25, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has said he someday wants to ...

Metal has been treated as the musical outcast of society for as long as it’s existed. But despite mainstream judgment that’s often cast it as the unwanted outsider, interest in metal has grown ...

Metal can be a pretty polarizing musical genre, and fans often get a bad rap for listening to it because of how intense it sounds. But there are loads of benefits to listening to music, and it turns ...

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 ...

Dear Healthy Men: I can’t stand the music my kids play (and yes, I realize my parents said the same about me, and their parents said the same about them, and so on). But the difference is that my kids ...

Forget wild and chaotic behaviour, heavy metal music culture is inclusive and governed by etiquette and codes of conduct, according to new UCL research. After several years on the road, touring with a ...

The glam rock anthem helped cement Marc Bolan’s status as one of Britain’s greatest songwriters.