A legendary heavy metal band is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a festival that will be the ultimate fan experience.

Converge band members left to right: Nate Newton (bassist), Ben Koller (drummer), Jacob Bannon (vocalist), Kurt Ballou (guitarist). There’s something missing in modern heavy music. It’s hard to put a ...

The five-member band successfully closed out its back-to-back performances last year following a series of farewell tours ...

Who says headbanging can’t pay the bills? Over the decades, some heavy metal bands have gone far beyond filling sweaty clubs and instead turned their riffs into serious empires. These acts have proven ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

Metallica did far more than define metal with their songs. They set the bar for what longevity in heavy music could look like. Four decades in, the band is still headlining stadiums, releasing new ...

Dead of Winter Fest 2026 Announces 11th Annual Heavy Metal Benefit for Youth Music Programs With Four Headliners, Two Stages, 19 Bands On Saturday, February 21st, 2026 ...

The discourse. It’s a nightmare, but I suppose there is a price for success. I’ve been in the heavy music scene long enough to witness the primordial awakenings of metalcore in the mid-'90s in New ...

A new service for artists backed by the biggest metal band on the planet just launched and it’s loping to make securing and protecting royalties easier for those involved. Dubbed the Heavy Music ...

Sharon Osbourne says heavy bands have always been the "bastards of the music industry". The 72-year-old music manager and wife of Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne cannot understand why the media ...