One guitarist, one bassist, one drummer and any one of them ripping on vocals. Sometimes, less is more and these traditional power trios have made some of rock and metal’s most epic music. Power trios ...

Pantera will go down in history as one of the most powerful heavy metal bands ever, often credited with keeping the genre afloat when it was out of style in the mid-'90s. It’s a road that wouldn’t ...

In the eyes of many elitist music fans having an extensive Hair Metal album collection is the equivalent of having Celine Dion's entire catalog uploaded into your iPod. But for the legions of fans, ...

Celebrity couples in metal society are anything but rare, but unlike in the mainstream these folks aren’t always on TV and don’t have their own reality shows. Well, Ozzy had one… but we can pretend it ...

Mining is having a moment. Pundits and politicians have rediscovered the reality that extracting minerals from the earth is both critical for a modern economy and an inherently dirty business.

Thousands of years after the Bronze and Iron Ages, the true Metal Age dawned half a century ago. In 1970, Black Sabbath convincingly evoked the true essence of evil with the lumbering, three-chord ...

Before the release of 1992’s Vulgar Display Of Power, Pantera were, for all intents and purposes, just another heavy metal band. There’s no denying that the Texan quartet were talented, as evidenced ...

Ahead of the release of their new album, Nightmare Logic, the Texan thrash band’s Riley Gale guides us through his favorite metal releases of all time I would say the first big record that was a huge ...