Tolling church bells and pouring rain are sounds typically associated with funerals. They also marked the birth of heavy metal, after being used as the introduction to Black Sabbath’s eponymous ...

If original heavy metal represents a distancing from rock’s ties to the blues and various forms of pop music, then extreme metal is the complete, blood-drenched divorce (later styles like sludge ...

However, it was their self-titled debut album in 1970 that marked the birth of heavy metal. With its dark, heavy riffs and ominous lyrics, Black Sabbath set the stage for the metal genre.

Narrated by black metal pioneer and guitarist Oystein Aarseth (Rory Culkin), who went by “Euronymous,” the film follows the emergence of this shrieking, Scandinavian variant of heavy metal and ...

Here, the rock icon opines on heavy metal music and other groups including The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. ... I’ve seen where Cream is sort of held responsible for the birth of heavy metal.

Flotsam and Jetsam's Eric "AK" Knutson reflects on the 35th anniversary of "Doomsday for the Deceiver," a thrash-metal classic that got 6K in Kerrang!

No Black Sabbath, no heavy metal as we know it. The musical elements that combined to form that life-affirming clangour that has resounded around the globe for more than 40 years now can be fairly ...