When news broke this week of the release of the 73-year-old Leslie Van Houten, a former Charles Manson acolyte who recently finished serving more than 50 years of a life sentence for double murder, we ...

Metal is a genre known for lyrics that delve into dark or taboo subject matter. Fans of the genre are no strangers to songs about death, religion, war, demons, or other topics that songwriters in most ...

With World Painted Blood, Slayer’s new album out Nov. 3, the Huntington Park, CA, quartet tried out some new tricks — including writing a song from the perspective of a woman for the first time ever!

The popular nursery rhyme "The Muffin Man" supposedly originated as a caution to children, warning them to beware of a 16th-century baker-turned-serial-killer who enticed his young victims by pulling ...