Here’s 10 of the most essential rock and metal bands from France, chosen by Nicolas Delestrade, bassist for French progressive metalcore group Novelists. From black metal to pop-punk, the historic ...

He says Finland has one of the most vibrant metal scenes in the world. It's estimated the country has 54 metal bands for every 100,000 Finns. But why Finland? Sponsor Message "I'm sure the 200 ...

displaying the number of metal bands per capita across the globe, but now The Atlantic’s City Lab has extrapolated on it, positing that the countries with the most metal bands are also the ...

While it's fun to rehash the glory days of heavy metal and its emergence upon the worldwide scene and subsequent global dominance, the '80s started nearly 40 years ago. Nostalgia only offers so ...

We have a pope from Chicago, and now Finland has an envoy from a metal band. Freddy Lim is the frontman of the group Chthonic, and he was chosen by President Lai Ching-te as Taiwan’s ambassador of the ...

Cigarette smoke fills the room as concertgoers wait for a band ... or death metal, there is still a scene that is very much active with fans who are enthusiastic about the most extreme sounds a guitar ...

Gojira, a popular French band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version ... Vietnam show how the country has changed.

In the spring of 2018, MetalSucks compiled a list of The 50 Most Popular Metal Bands ... could skew a band’s ranking tremendously. If we’d stopped tallying pageviews just a month earlier, on August 31 ...