"The Beatles" and "heavy metal" aren't typically phrases that go together, but John Lennon made an interesting case for this ...

Did You Know The Beatles Invented Heavy Metal? The Beatles may not be the first band you think of when someone utters the words “heavy metal.” Indeed, they won a lot of admirers who were not ...

Paul McCartney’s Noisy Chaos of "Helter Skelter" Paul McCartney had a simple goal for writing “Helter Skelter.” He wanted to make it the loudest, grittiest, most chaotic rock song to date. And he ...

John Lennon felt one of The Beatles‘ songs was an early heavy metal record. Paul McCartney felt the song was groundbreaking as well, although for different reasons. Notably, the song became a hit ...

Music historians laud Ozzy Osbourne and his band, Black Sabbath, as pioneers of the heavy metal genre. But if you were to ask the Prince of Darkness himself, he had a different idea about what “heavy ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...