Nita Strauss has picked out the five guitar riffs that changed her life, which includes a Randy Rhoads classic and some more obscure heavy metal gems. The guitarist rose to fame as a hired gun, ...

This is an opinion cartoon tribute to the Wizard of Ozzy. “The Black Sabbath guys were a hippie love and peace band that found their soul by wrapping anti-war lyrics into devastating, sludgy guitar ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

It’s safe to say that the next generation of metal and rock is alive and well. 11-year-old Cole Parsons went viral thanks to his crazy shredding skills on the guitar. While it’s unknown if he won his ...

They've become some of the most popular YouTube personalities while gracing your screen with their guitar mastery, but what are the riffs that helped define the playing of the online heroes? Loudwire ...

Thrash metal came up in the '80s and drew from both the new wave of British heavy metal (commonly known as NWOBHM) and punk rock. But there's one song from the '70s that might've had an influence as ...

The rhythmic heavy metal slasher VR game God Of Riffs finally has a release date as it's coming to Meta Quest this September. Developed by Boss Music Games and published by Vyersoft, the game will ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...

The 1980s was a prime decade for heavy metal music. From Metallica to Black Sabbath, and many others in between, bands were firing on all cylinders. The decade gave the genre some of its biggest hits, ...