After four decades as one of San Antonio’s most celebrated metal musicians, bassist Donnie Van Stavern still feels the fire. “I turned 62 this year and still can’t believe I’m playing heavy metal,” he ...

Where does metal music come from and how did it get its name? In a technical sense, heavy metal was born in 1839. It’s a chemistry term describing a loosely connected set of metals defined as ...

An introduction to some of the women that broke down barriers in the heavy metal and hard rock music scenes. You can count the pioneering women musicians in heavy metal and hard rock on two hands.

But this pursuit is what also inadvertently brought me head-to-head with metal music in ways I never ... the sounds that evolved from that music. “Heavy Rock from the American Comedown Era ...

The drugs, the travel, the women. Our lives were forever changed”: The chaotic story of Black Sabbath, the band who did more than anyone to invent heavy metal “We were heartbroken. The world had lost ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all ... and it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.

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