The best European metal bands are a key component in the genre’s history and evolution. It is impossible to understand what ...

Warbringer frontman John Kevill shouts out the best of new school thrash with bands who got their start in the 2010s or later ...

Meet Knocked Loose spin-off spinkickers Church Tongue, Siberian black metallers Grima, Texan metalcore mob Catch Your Breath ...

The Saxon frontman takes Hammer reader's questions - and definitively answers whether Vikings or Saxons would win in a fight ...

Here are the 50 best metal albums of the 2000s ... VOTE: Better Genre – Nu-Metal Vs. Heavy Metal? 10 Rock Bands That Were Once Considered Metal, But Aren’t Anymore 10 Rock Bands That Were ...

The crowd inside Franklin Music Hall Saturday night was, in many respects, a standard mass of heavy metal mayhem. Pumping fists, brutal mosh pits, a man the size of an NFL linebacker charging to ...

A pick-style player who leans “heavily on the guitar side of the bass guitar,” Campbell gets his tone by cranking his ESP ...

drummer Clive Burr (poached from rival band Samson) and second guitarist Dennis Stratton. It remains one of the greatest heavy metal albums ever made, full of electrifying songs, raw energy and ...

Hard rock and heavy ... metal currently don't have mainstream outlets like MTV to reach the masses, but there has been plenty of great stuff from those two genres since 2000. Here's our list of ...

Breaking away from the confines of a band, no matter how legendary, isn't always easy in the hard rock and metal world. Here's a look at some who have done it quite well. 1 of 20 ...

The greatest French heavy metal song song of all time(s), though ... I know we’re gonna get a million votes for Gojira, and I love that band, too (duh), but let’s try to think outside la boîte a ...

The heavy metal thrash band, Slayer, has announced a huge show this fall in Hershey. Slayer will perform along with Knocked Loose, Suicidal Tendencies, Power Trip, Cavalera (performing “Chaos A ...