Heavy metal is no stranger to songs about evil, the devil, the occult, and so on. These topics caused such a fuss for years that censoring or outright banning of albums became a regular topic of ...

Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...

There is one sure way to start an argument and that’s to ask the most contentious questions in metal guitar: what is the heaviest riff of all time? The question invites generational dispute; between ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plenty of heavy metal acts have achieved astronomical success and elevated the medium over the past half-century, but only ...