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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 — ...

Here are the best ballads from 11 big prog metal bands! We recently looked at the best ballad by 11 big prog rock bands, so it’s only fair that we shine the same spotlight on nearly a dozen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the greatest power ballads ever released came from the rock genre, even from glam metal bands like Warrant. The '80s band got some mixed reactions to their 1989 power ballad that ranked high ...

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 ...

A chart-topping 1992 power ballad helped close the door on the hair metal era as the genre’s dominance on the Billboard charts began to fade. Mr. Big's "To Be with You" was the last hair metal song to ...