Heavy metal, as a genre, has become woefully misunderstood and underappreciated in recent years, as its dozens of subgenres have fragmented and evolved away from the intense-yet-accessible nature of ...

Heavy metal enjoyed a serious boom in the 1980s, and the genre evolved significantly by the decade’s end. Many early 1980s tracks would predict the dark direction heavy metal would take, too. Let’s ...

Budgie is the poster child for a list like this. The iconic Welsh rock band was heavy when few other bands were ready to get that heavy back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their very first album, ...

Judas Priest remain the benchmark for classic heavy metal. From twin-guitar heroics to arena tours, Judas Priest still define what the genre can be today. Glanz im Detail: Die Bernstein-Potiknöpfe und ...