Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all ... and it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.

Here, you will find a list of bands that adorn patches on a battle jacket, and these are ... themselves and others in a more hard rock direction, heavy metal had never seemed less cool.

Find them below! The UK’s spiritual home of rock and heavy metal, Download Festival is the premier live music event for metalheads, punks, and rockers alike. The annual gathering welcomes ...

Stained Class, its LP jacket sporting an artsy cover and ... and Binks — transformed Judas Priest’s retooled brand of hard rock into pure heavy metal. “Stand by for exciter” indeed!

In 1970, Black Sabbath convincingly evoked the true essence of evil with the lumbering, three-chord opening guitar riff to the song “Black Sabbath,” consecrating the first pure heavy-metal ...

Hard-rock and heavy-metal isn’t elitist’s music, it’s the people’s music. The music of Camaros, pro sports events and streaming TV synchs. And in that way, as American as it gets ...

In the three-part docuseries I Wanna Rock ... Metal Dream, “and they were quickly scurrying around to find bands that were visually interesting.” It was therefore ideal that heavy metal ...