You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

The film capturing the scene outside a Judas Priest show was 17 minutes long, only available on VHS and won the hearts of a ...

Plenty of heavy metal acts have achieved astronomical success and elevated the medium over the past half-century, but only the biggest and boldest innovators can lay claim to the "Big 4" of heavy ...

As Music City, Nashville is home to all genres. Even "stoner witch metal bands." Yes, you read that right. Here are 7 groups ...

Amid cost-of-living pressures and global turmoil, music lovers are increasingly streaming punk, hard rock and heavy metal for ...

Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

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The West Coast's biggest heavy metal, rock and punk festival — Aftershock — lineup was announced Wednesday featuring more than 140 bands across five stages making 2026 the largest they’ve ever ...

A former country singer is making noise in a new genre: Heavy metal. Royale Lynn made her debut in 2021 with a country song called “Rocket Man” after moving to Nashville from a small-town farm in ...

As the '80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed — and had begun to undergo — a radical shift. It was a unique moment in hard rock and metal ...

How Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and more brought metal back from the dead ...

Alternative rock guitarists aren’t often associated with heavy metal shredders. You might connect the dots between certain bands and Black Sabbath. But the pointy axes and two-handed tapping of many ...