It’s just a small city!” laughs In Flames frontman Anders Fridén as he reflects on the place that birthed his band. “There ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the genre's influence on modern metal as powerful as ever, here's a handy guide to melodic death metal's evolution across the ...

Earlier this year, Gatecreeper told us about their 10 favorite melodic death metal albums as they got ready to release their own great new album, Dark Superstition, and now Fit For An Autopsy have ...

Pallbearer have been around long enough now that they're not just mentioned among doom metal's brightest modern bands, but truly one of the genre's all-time best. Their debut album, Sorrow and ...

Here are 11 bands that define Hungary's metal scene, as chosen by the country's own Hellfreaks. The group was formed in 2009 and plays a thrilling combination of metal, alternative and punk, serving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

On Sept. 10 Metallica's newest album, "Death Magnetic," was released, and its critical reception, moreover it's popular reception, could either be the death knell for the metal genre or a rebirth of ...

Crank up the volume and prepare to headbang! Join us as we count down our picks for the most successful and influential groups in the history of metal music. From thrash to death metal, groove to ...

The New Wave of American Heavy Metal was an exciting period in time for, well, American heavy metal. As we emerged from the nü metal-induced fog of the late ’90s and early 2000s, a new crop of metal ...

How one band helped craft a new sound that changed the fate of metal forever ...

A classic blueprint for the genre. This style has been mimicked by countless bands since and was gateway into ’90s death metal for our generation. One of the most sorrowful records from the ’90s. From ...