Jake is a voice actor, freelance writer, magazine curator, community radio DJ, dark ambience composer, and curry connoisseur. After starting an English degree in university at 18, he began writing ...

Sadly, I can’t think of a single metal album released this year that wielded such arresting, heart-stopping power for me. My ...

Hard-rock and heavy-metal isn’t elitist’s music, it’s the people’s music. The music of Camaros, pro sports events and streaming TV synchs. And in that way, as American as it gets, even if British ...

It's a debate that's gone on forever – or at least for the last few decades: Did grunge ignite the downfall of 1980s hard rock and heavy metal? According to Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard, yes (to ...

Earlier this year, we began tracking how many monthly listeners hard rock and heavy metal artists have been getting on Spotify. Where did we get this data? It's all ...

Inspired by horror movies and dark themes, legendary bands created a theatrically dark genre, Metal. Linda Diaz and Joey Hays chat with members of the legendary bands Gwar and Impaler to uncover how ...

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...

Even though things have been rough the last few years, I think we can all take a moment and be thankful that we at least have heavy metal! There’s a lot of debate about when metal first came into ...

Chinese artist Nut Brother has spent much of 2021 on a truly surreal music tour. Over several months, he staged heavy metal gigs at a series of unusual locations, including a remote lake, a zinc plant ...

A crowd gathered around David Fisher as he slammed his hammer into the warm copper, creating sharp lines in the metal that would transform the clear surface into what appeared to be an intricate ...

Susan Smith and Vicki King started a regular heavy metal karaoke night during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when bands ...