Eyes Set To Kill, Viridescent, Stitched Up Heart and Lauren Babic are no longer exceptions to the rule - they’re remaking the genre’s sound, aesthetics and narratives.

Here are 10 one-woman black metal bands you need to know about. From Onielar, helmswoman of Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult and Bethlehem, to Sarcana, ex-Gehenna’s “Spell Trilogy” keyboardist, there ...

Metal is a music genre often associated with a lot of aggression which makes sense given the heavy electric guitar riffs, the loud and bassy screaming vocals and the nature of metal concerts as a ...

“We were on the radio in Seattle, and we’d have friends that would go, ‘That’s not you guys. That sounds like something from Germany or the U.K.’ And we’d go, ‘No, no, no, that’s us.’ And they’d go, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

Middle school was an odd time for me. As I’m sure most angsty preteens do, I struggled to define the boundaries between who I was and who I was not. And most often, that struggle manifested in my ...

Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is ...