When thinking about a love song, a rock band is the last thing most would expect, with more than a few big names having ...

Slipknot released one of the genre's saddest rock ballads in 2008, with frontman Corey Taylor behind its sorrowful lyrics.

Our resident metalhead Robin Askew ranks the greatest heavy metal LPs ever committed to vinyl Well, this was a tough one.

Here are 11 of the best love songs by some of the biggest bands in heavy metal. Metal bands aren't always known for their ability to be touchy feely, but on more than one occasion, heavy metal has ...

Metal's reputation in the 1990s isn't the most robust, but the best song of each year of this decade proves that when it comes to quality, this scene was thriving. While the overall commercial success ...

The origins of heavy metal have long been debated by music fans, but there’s no doubt that Black Sabbath was a pioneering band for the genre. Both the BBC and American Songwrite ...

Paul McCartney’s Noisy Chaos of "Helter Skelter" Paul McCartney had a simple goal for writing “Helter Skelter.” He wanted to make it the loudest, grittiest, most chaotic rock song to date. And he ...

Failure‘s first new song in four years, “The Air’s on Fire,” is, well… straight fire — a smoldering fuse of a track that builds upon itself, blooming into a textural c ...

That anvil drop in Metallica’s 1985 heavy metal hit “For Whom The Bell Tolls” might be the most legendary part of the whole song. At the beginning of the track, the sound of a “bell” tolling ushers in ...