Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the powerful blowing horns one might associate with orcs right into Heavy Metal screaming, we admit we are pretty obsessed.

It is easy, oh so easy, to mock heavy metal. For 40 years, This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner's glorious spoof of metal's OTT excess — all volume knobs, spandex and cartoonish sexism — has remained the ...

Here are 11 of the best love songs by some of the biggest bands in heavy metal. Metal bands aren't always known for their ability to be touchy feely, but on more than one occasion, heavy metal has ...

Today, we will be revealing the five best examples of the intriguing phenomenon known as the black metal ballad, though it might seem like a contradiction in terms. A decent list of self-proclaimed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Diamonds and Rust" exists in two very different musical worlds. In one, it's a folk ballad written and performed by Joan Baez; in ...

There have been quite a few little deep dives into some of our favorite, most iconic metal bands, that are currently in production or already finished, like The Ballad of Judas Priest. The official ...

If you were to time-warp back to 2001 and tell people that Slipknot will create one of the most vulnerable and evocative ballads in metal, they’d laugh in your face. The Nine rocketed to prominence ...

How a Rage Against the Machine rocker and former anthropologist turned it up to 11 with a heart-felt, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the band that “created the culture of heavy metal.” By Scott Roxborough ...

Released in April 1975 as the title track off Baez’s 16th studio album, “Diamonds and Rust” has an interesting backstory. Baez started writing the song in 1974, and a telephone conversation with Bob ...