Sleep Token, Cradle Of Filth and Epica are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Here are the 25 best metal songs of the last 25 years ... We had the broad scope of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal ultimately bound by their adoration of heavy rhythms, the tech-death ...

To celebrate this magical year, here’s a look back at three songs from 1980 that changed heavy metal. Some songs give music bits of language it can no longer live without. Think of Chuck Berry ...

Maiden’s second album, Killers, followed in 1981. It included Innocent Exile, the ground-zero Maiden song. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Adrian Smith, who had replaced Dennis Stratton.

The term “metal” is believed to have come from the hippie movement, when “heavy” meant deep or serious ... experimenting with harsher tones; songs like The Kinks’ 1964 You Really ...