The 68th Annual Grammy Awards are taking place in Los Angeles and it was big year for several rockers who were rewarded as ...

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 ...

Have three of the world’s biggest metal bands just… all swapped drummers? It’s looking likely that Slipknot, Sepultura and Suicidal Tendencies have all just traded tubthumpers, after ex Slipknot ...

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson reports on new music shaping the charts.

Some of punk and metal's most influential outfits arose from the Bay Area, with many of them serving as an exciting and ...

Blackbraid, aka Sgah'gahsowáh, begins his first-ever national tour this week. Living in the southern Adirondacks is a star among black metal fans. In the next couple months, his profile within that ...

The complete Maryland Deathfest 2026 roster is here, and it’s massive.

Tragically, music is not a meritocracy. You can be the best and most original band in the world, but you still won’t make it far without a loyal fanbase, talented businessmen and a good, stable lineup ...

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 ...

Emmy Award-winning composer Bear McCreary loves music that goes big. He certainly spans a wide range of dynamics and styles in the scoring work he does for film, TV, and video games, but he revels in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...