Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

When Judas Priest pulled up a Fleetwood Mac deep cut, they remade it into a metal classic.

In a nutshell, progressive rock kicked off in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when distinctive and imaginative artists experimented with particularly complex arrangements, lengthy track lengths, ...

Hard rock and heavy metal band Ghost just ended a four-year drought on the Billboard 200 chart for rock music. The band’s latest record Skeletá has officially hit no. 1 on the chart, outperforming ...

Tom Morello recently appeared on Billy Corgan’s podcast The Magnificent Others to discuss 1990s Gen X rock bands. The Rage Against The Machine guitarist explains the “punk rock guilt” shared by many ...

Classic Rock Albums That Defined the 1970s The 1970s may have been rock music’s greatest decade. Arena rock was exploding, heavy metal was being forged in real time, punk was tearing down the old […] ...

As the '80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed — and had begun to undergo — a radical shift. It was a unique moment in hard rock and metal ...

A rock legend says he was “creatively dying slowly” in his metal band. Tommy Lee is opening up about why he left Motley Crue multiple times, most notably in 1999 for an extended break. The famous ...

Often in radio, the smaller stations are the most interesting. Case in point is KNAC (now KBUE, 105.5 FM). Licensed to Long Beach, the little station set the standard for creative programming during ...

Heavy music was at war with itself in 1985 — and from the conflict emerged a slew of groundbreaking albums from one of hard rock and metal's most consequential years. Our list of the Top 20 Hard Rock ...