Here are the 9 best non-hair metal albums released by hair metal bands. The 1980s were synonymous with larger-than-life personas, infectious, anthemic choruses, long, flowing locks, skin-tight leather ...

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Maynard James Keenan performs with Tool at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln on May 16. From left: Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Scott Ian, Joey Belladonna and Jon Donais of Anthrax. Mastodon Bruce ...

In Metal, longevity has always been part of mythology. Only a rare few bands who grind it out across multiple albums, tours, and (I'll just say it), years of failure, before finally breaking through.

The world changed on August 16, 1980, or at least the corner of it where heavy rock lived did. That sodden late summer Saturday saw upwards of 40,000 denim-clad longhairs gather in a field in the East ...

Write off our list of The Best Ballad by 15 Bands of the Hair Metal Era at your own risk — there's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe. Hair metal — glam metal, pop-metal, ...

I didn't think too hard about dedicating the second-ever edition of this column to Ragne Wahlquist. The late Heavy Load frontman left an indelible mark on heavy metal, in his native Sweden and beyond, ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...

Heavy, raw, and more intense than anything he did with Skid Row (yes, even Subhuman Race). Many critics, pundits and personalities within the current-day hard rock/metal community have praised Child ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

Recently, the brutal/technical death metal band Cryptopsy announced the re-release of their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh, featuring some special guests. Billy Strings is among the list of ...