Heavy metal is no stranger to songs about evil, the devil, the occult, and so on. These topics caused such a fuss for years that censoring or outright banning of albums became a regular topic of ...

Metallica’s James Hetfield delivered an unexpected festive treat that no one had on their Christmas bingo card. From the headbanging anthems, commanding stage presence and booming heavy metal riffs, ...

Remember the musical landscape in 1987? Back then, glam metal undisputably owned rock and roll. Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” hit number two. Whitesnake went multi-platinum. Poison, Ratt, and ...

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Here are the 10 best death metal covers of '80s Metallica songs. Metallica are synonymous with metal as a genre and a band so large that they fit within the constructs of the rock populace. However, ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...