Here is the best metal song of each year of the 1980s, including one runner-up for all 10 years!

New year, new metal tunes from Alter Bridge, Hanabie, Lord Of The Lost and more!

This Ride The Lightning track from 1984 is Metallica’s most direct reference to H.P. Lovecraft. Though, it’s not the only thrash metal track from the band that pays tribute to the horror author. The ...

In a year with thousands of new songs, we've ranked 2025's Best Rock Songs of the year. Contributions by Chuck Armstrong (CA) ...

From pastoral folk to thunderous metal, explore 17 legendary tracks that successfully translated J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

Rolling Stone has published a new list of the 250 best songs of the 21st century so far, and the music magazine included a whopping two metal songs in the roundup. The first metal appearance on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. While there’s not much debate regarding which lineup of Black ...

Here are the five best prog metal covers of Black Sabbath songs! As the inventors of heavy metal – according to most genre fans and journalists, at least – Black Sabbath directly or indirectly ...

As hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — became the predominant rock subgenre conquering the airwaves, artists and producers alike found that they could multiply ...

Many songs contributed to rock in the '80s, but the three below were major players. Revisit these three songs, all released ...