Ekko Astral received much-deserved praise for their 2024 full-length debut, pink balloons, which was filled with angular ...

From its buzzing guitar drone to its clattering drums, Ticket to Ride was certainly a step forward for the Beatles sonically - but did it really invent heavy rock?

Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums of the 1980s and the 90 best of the 1990s! The sounds and styles that were pioneered and popularized across these two decades is mind-boggling. The guitar ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

Heavys are the world’s first headphones designed specifically for hard rock and heavy metal. Featuring eight drivers with patented speaker placement, these state-of-the-art cans cover multiple ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the wailing Black Sabbath singer-turned-solo act who took the “Crazy Train” from a bleak childhood in working-class Birmingham, England, to heavy metal stardom, has died. He was 76. His ...

What does heavy rock represent in 2025? Power? Rebellion? Survival? For Alice Cooper and Rob Halford, it’s all of the above. Beyond that, it’s about staying true to themselves and to their fans, while ...

Often in radio, the smaller stations are the most interesting. Case in point is KNAC (now KBUE, 105.5 FM). Licensed to Long Beach, the little station set the standard for creative programming during ...

Alternative rock guitarists aren’t often associated with heavy metal shredders. You might connect the dots between certain bands and Black Sabbath. But the pointy axes and two-handed tapping of many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Alfonso Ribeiro, guest judge Gene Simmons, Julianne Hough and Bruno Tonioli cheer on the 11 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - On a dimly lit stage the godfather of Afghan rock prepares for the next song, as images of the French movie La Haine (Hate) flicker above and his audience is asked what song would ...