You can count both fiction and nonfiction literature as being inspiration for the names of some of the biggest rock and metal ...

Coming off the holiday, it was another light week for tour announcements, but some big names did announce new runs this week.

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In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

In the three-part docuseries I Wanna Rock: The ‘80s Metal Dream (Paramount+), musicians whose different backgrounds and entry points into the music industry put them on a collision course with the MTV ...

Hard rock and metal dominated throughout the '80s, and in hindsight, perhaps they owe much of that success to the stellar releases that kicked off the decade. Read about all of these and more in our ...

You've heard of these lost metal albums and you've wanted to listen to 'em, but they don't exist. At least not in any publicly available space. These are the records that we all wish we could finally ...

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 ...

Before Bohemian Rhapsody made Queen superstars, their first three albums delivered crushing riffs, prog experimentation and ...

When it comes to hard rock/heavy metal debuts, look no further than this classic from the legendary Black Sabbath frontman. Having been booted from that legendary band, Osbourne was at a crossroads in ...

Developing a definitive “best of all time” list requires a densely thorough thought process, one which must take into account both subjective and objective angles when constructing a list of this type ...