VCU Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives has catalogued and made available to the public and researchers a collection of original art and promotional flyers associated with the Richmond-based ...

Ah, Metal Archives: at times an invaluable resource, at others Exhibit A of metal’s infuriatingly elitist gatekeeping culture. I regularly refer to Metal Archives as a reference for MetalSucks ...

Just like there's no definitive answer as to how Earth formed, there is truly no definitive answer as to which band "invented" heavy metal. Groups began releasing heavy albums left and right starting ...

We’ve been through this before. I’m a HUGE Ai Weiwei fan. He somehow continues to send out beautiful and challenging transmissions from behind the bonefart razor wall of oppression and torture that is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Heavy-metal music fans gathered in a cold rain outside the Alrosa Villa nightclub Thursday as police and patrons reconstructed the rampage that had unfolded the night before. It left ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

I first lost my soul when I was 12 years old. Or so I feared, sitting in Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater in Centennial, Colo., with my father and a grade school friend, waiting to be spiritually and ...

Since the beginning of heavy music, whether that be Sabbath and Zeppelin or even their classical forefathers, there’s been a concern that such dark, aggressive sounding music must be something truly ...