Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

The 21st century’s reigning champions of death metal — melodic death metal, specifically — The Black Dahlia Murder perfected their lethal style on their third offering, 2007’s Nocturnal.

Heavy metal has produced legendary artists celebrated for groundbreaking music, powerful live performances, and innovative ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new ...

One of the finest bands of the 1970s glam explosion yet cutting an entirely unique mark, we pick five songs you must hear from The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

a semi-glam rock group," Bjorn Ulvaeus later recalled to The Guardian in 2014. "Which was stupid because we were always a pop group." Nevertheless, the band kept writing songs. At one point ...

"people person" is our Heavy Song of the Week. Honorable mentions include tracks by Nova Twins, Rivers of Nihil, and Warbringer.

David Draiman, frontman of the band Disturbed, writes about Yarden Bibas and his family, who have come to symbolize loss and resilience. By David Draiman, as told to David Caspi [Trigger warning ...

Selena Gomez's new single "Sunset Blvd" debuts at No. 3 on iTunes, just behind Sleep Token and Chappell Roan. The track is ...