These artists grew up worshipping the hard rock and metal bands of the '70s and they wore those influences on their tattered sleeves. Hair metal disparagers also ignored the fact that as grunge ...

Swedish band Candlemass’ 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is a bona doom metal landmark, giving the template laid ...

During the late ’70s and early ’80s ... The media could not ignore this music genre anymore. On some occasions, heavy metal was also shown on Swedish television (exclusively run by the ...

Iron Maiden formed in London at the end of the '70s and became one of heavy metal's reigning bands. The group's original singer, Paul Di'anno, was replaced by Bruce Dickinson in 1982, just in time ...

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.

Def Leppard originally entered the scene at the end of the ’70 as part of the new wave of British heavy metal, taking a cue from bands like Led Zeppelin (note the similarities in the groups ...

Two leading lights of the West Coast metal scene visit Friday when LA band Deathchant and Portland, OR-based crew Bewitcher bring their co-headlining tour to the Bottom of the Hill.