The rhythms in Beck’s Bolero were inspired by 1928 orchestral piece Boléro by French composer Maurice Ravel, though Beck ...

These nostalgic metal songs from across the decades will make you want to buy tickets to your next local gig and jump in the pit.

Like all genres of music, heavy metal was created out of years and years of influence, and here are three songs that influenced its birth.

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Mudvayne, Soulfly and Avatar are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite! Autumn is almost upon us! As summer breathes its last dying breaths, we enter the final ...

While many think of "hair metal" when it comes to hard rock in the 1980s, that's an unfair assessment. The decade was much more diverse. Many bands from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM ...

Grunge was heavily influenced by heavy metal even though they are rock, so here are the most metal-sounding songs by big grunge bands.

A look into the appeal of Deep Purple and how a tour bus journey invented the worlds of thrash and speed metal, inspiring the likes of Metallica.

Here are the five best prog metal covers of Black Sabbath songs! As the inventors of heavy metal – according to most genre fans and journalists, at least – Black Sabbath directly or indirectly ...

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Messiah picked up Ghost’s 2010 debut album Opus Eponymous after it was released, having heard that it was partly inspired by ...