The crowd inside Franklin Music Hall Saturday night was, in many respects, a standard mass of heavy metal mayhem. Pumping fists, brutal mosh pits, a man the size of an NFL linebacker charging to the ...

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 ...

Recently, the brutal/technical death metal band Cryptopsy announced the re-release of their 1994 debut album, Blasphemy Made Flesh, featuring some special guests. Billy Strings is among the list of ...

Mix a local heavy metal band with ninja, rock climbing, parkour and a dash of gymnastics, and that's exactly what audiences got on the Monday, June 9 episode of American Ninja Warrior. The reality ...

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 ...

Though we are only five years into the 2020s, death metal is proving itself to be one of the defining genres of the decade. Looking back on the 2010s, death metal went through extraordinary growth ...

We’re about a quarter-century removed from the days when nu metal ruled the airwaves, and the once-maligned subgenre of music continues to hold a hell of a lot more cultural significance than its ...

Residents of the Iowa River Landing might have been shocked at the smoke and noise coming out of Xtream Arena on Nov 14. From an outside perspective, it might look like Van Halen had come to play.