These are some of the longest-running metal bands that have never broken up and thus have been active for around 40 years.

The nu metal explosion took heavy music into the mainstream like never before, but some of its most promising names sadly fell by the wayside ...

Metal never went quiet. It just found darker, louder rooms to bleed into. The architects who built this genre from the dirt up are still selling out stadiums. Meanwhile, the viral acts that shattered ...

As metalcore took over as the most prominent subgenre within metal, the new wave of bands became increasingly younger, and now nü metal is the new nostalgia. Instead of bands looking to the ’80s and ...

Metal is what it is today thanks to the bands that came before and pioneered a sound that can still be heard in the acts of the day. Below are seven metal bands of the 1970s who blazed the trail. When ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's easy to forget that the future is created in the here and now. When Fear Factory released second album Demanufacture in 1995, ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here. Critics ...

If you look at your favorite metal band’s list of influences, you’re probably going to see Black Sabbath somewhere in the mix. They were one of the first truly heavy bands and inspired countless ...