Today, we consider most "hair metal" bands hard rock bands that had a glamorous aesthetic in the '80s. But back then, people ...

While Deep Purple, like so many early metal bands, began as a progressive rock outfit, by the time they began recording their ...

Heavy metal has produced legendary artists celebrated for groundbreaking music, powerful live performances, and innovative ...

In the late 1970s, a new, heavier subgenre of metal began to take over the San Francisco Bay Area metal scene, a genre that ...

Since the subgenre exploded in the early '80s, hair metal has been ... to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment ...

Metal music began in the late 60s and rose to prominence in the early 70s in Britain. The term “metal” is believed to have come from the hippie movement, when “heavy” meant deep or serious.

The Norwegian band’s early years were punctuated by headlines about death and church burnings. It went on to become a beacon ...

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

Visitors to the Museum can touch the wavy surface of the banded iron formation The waves of colourful rock within the specimen are made up of black and red bands of iron oxide ... They allow ...

Swedish metal band Katatonia have parted ways with founding guitarist Anders Nyström after 34 years. Read more.