As assistant professor of music teaches four required classes for freshman and does research on popular music, particularly ...

Dear future rock stars, let Black Sabbath, Motörhead, and Iron Maiden help guide you toward your heavy metal dreams.

Even though it takes a lot of muscle to get a Metallica song right, Lars Ulrich felt some bands were more than up to the ...

Rage Against The Machine’s Evil Empire turns 30. The 1996 album debuted at No.1 in the United States and delivered the Grammy-winning track Tire Me while defining the rap-metal sound of the era.

And then there’s a major choice to be made the weekend of July 23: whether to attend Blucifer’s First Rodeo, a new, all-local ...

Tomas Lindberg’s last act is one of his finest, as At The Gates show why they were the best ever to do it on incendiary final ...

Here we are, barely two columns in to 2026, and I’m already overwhelmed. I feel like I say “this has been a great year for ...

Music is flooded with coincidences, and in the case of heavy metal, it's the number 17 which effectively connects the genres ...

Weinberg explained that he asked to have corrective surgery back in 2023, then was seemingly fired from Slipknot out of ...

Look Outside Your Window, whose members also play in Slipknot, will finally release their self-titled debut, recorded in 2008 ...

Extreme metal is better known now than it used to be — regular people understand it a little bit more.” Even before Metalocalypse co-creator Brendon Small leaked the first ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am ...