A chart-topping 1992 power ballad helped close the door on the hair metal era as the genre’s dominance on the Billboard ...

During the late '80s and early '90s, hair metal ruled rock radio and sold millions of albums. Then, that shifted after one popular power ballad became one of the final songs from the genre to top the ...

Metallica's formative Master of Puppets album was released on March 3, 1986, and quickly became the most influential and critically acclaimed album in the heavy metal genre. Master of Puppets was the ...

The soft rock classic is widely considered the last glam metal song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

But our overall winner for the week were black metal godfathers Venom, Lay Down Your Soul tapping into the primordial nastiness that helped spawn metal's most evil subgenre in the first place. This ...

From missed millions to botched tours, discover how the pioneers of thrash metal were also the unluckiest band in rock ...

Here is your 2026 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

Monsters of Rock Festival's heavy metal reign ran from 1980 to 1996, the first of its kind to deem itself a rock festival.

newshapes have continued their ascent with a new track that pulls on the best bits of emo's long and storied history.

Our resident metalhead Robin Askew ranks the greatest heavy metal LPs ever committed to vinyl Well, this was a tough one.

And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival ...

Take a last look at Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith at Disney's Hollywood Studios. It's closing to become a ...