Throughout heavy metal's dizzying evolution and splicing into countless subgenres (and subgrenres of subgenres), thrash metal's core DNA of high-tempo riffage, ripping solos and full-throttle, ...

Just like there's no definitive answer as to how Earth formed, there is truly no definitive answer as to which band "invented" heavy metal. Groups began releasing heavy albums left and right starting ...

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 ...

Within the mainstream, the genius of black metal’s music is often lost amid a sea of sensationalism. "Its musicians are murderers, arsonists and satanists!", pop culture’s been crying since the 1990s.