these heavy metal albums are perfect examples of music's heaviest art form. Before anyone loses their lunch over the choices that populate this list, we should establish that heavy metal has been ...

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time.

featuring heavy, droning guitar tones and themes of despair and melancholy, as seen in the works of bands like Candlemass and ...

Metal music began in the late 60s and rose to prominence in the early 70s in Britain. The term “metal” is believed to have come from the hippie movement, when “heavy” meant deep or serious.