The German rock band—known for era-defining songs like “Rock You Like a Hurricane ,” “Still Loving You,” and “Wind of Change” ...

Few bands are as synonymous with heavy metal as Judas Priest. With Rob Halfordat the helm, the band pioneered the sound by releasing iconic albums like British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance and ...

Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

Heavy metal has produced legendary artists celebrated for groundbreaking music, powerful live performances, and innovative ...

Wendy Dio: [The Hear ’n Aid single] Stars took about two weeks. The first session was at Sound City in LA, where we did the ...

Before Billy Joel was a classy and sophisticated showman sitting behind a grand piano, he was a thick-haired heavy metal rock ‘n’ roller. Surprised? So are we, but it is true, as Billy Joel co-founded ...

Write off our list of The Best Ballad by 15 Bands of the Hair Metal Era at your own risk — there's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe. Hair metal — glam metal, pop-metal, ...

In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

The Canadian metal pioneers Anvil are perhaps the ultimate example of 'the band that almost was'. In the early 80s, they were ...

Black Sabbath released Paranoid in 1970 and almost ignored it, yet it became one of their most iconic songs of all time.

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