If you love Metallica, you’ll love these modern metal bands, as they follow similar paths and styles to the iconic band that ...

Monuments guitarist John Browne hasn’t played in standard tuning for 20 years, ever since Tesseract’s Acle Kahney turned him onto the openness of DADGAD. It’s helped him forge massive soundscapes with ...

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 ...

Having conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, but there's no denying the genre has struggled for the past decade. From ...

Rolling Stone has compiled their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, and it's not too promising if you're a fan of modern metal. In fact, only one song from the 2010s made the cut, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...

As we recently explored at length, the current state of mainstream heavy metal is bleak, partially because so many of the biggest bands are more like pop acts with the occasional metalcore breakdown.

We’re big fans of Muse. They’ve got that epic arena rock thing going on, and while they’ve always erred on the side of heavy and groovy, they’ve never felt the need to fully push into the metal sphere ...

There are many factions of Slipknot fans. Some could be separated by generation (Ozzfest 1999 graduates versus Gen Alpha #MetalTokers). Others spend their lives arguing about which Slipknot takes the ...

Metal roofs have a long history dating back to ancient civilizations, with early examples found in Roman and Byzantine architecture, where copper and lead sheets were used for durability and weather ...