Since it started, metal has been using sonic intensity and unsettling lyrics to try and frighten the pants off the mainstream. That desire to freak out the uninitiated doesn’t start and stop at the ...

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Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

Artificial Intelligence is an existential threat to visual artists in the music industry. With a prompt as simple as "heavy metal album cover," programs like Hotpot and Magic Studio can create an ...

Having conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, but there's no denying the genre has struggled for the past decade. From ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. For its most dedicated fans, metal is not merely a genre — it is a creative legacy whose evolution is shared, studied and passed down from one ...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who designed the sculptures currently on display outside the Wilson School, announced plans to release a heavy metal album inspired by the three months he spent ...