The band may be relatively new but its members have spent years steeped in the scene, giving them edge and an ear for tracks that rip through a room ...

You'll see a few veteran heavy hitters on this list, including Testament (whose latest offering, Para Bellum, was named ...

Blazing out of the fires of heavy metal and adopting the pace and aggression of the burgeoning hardcore movement, thrash metal was the defining sound of heavy music in the 1980s. That entire movement ...

Phil Kettner remembers the first time he saw Metallica live. “My first reaction was, ‘Oh wow, it’s punk rock with long hair,’” says Kettner, who was guitarist with San Francisco proto-thrashers Lääz ...

Here is the best album by 15 legendary thrash metal bands. For over 40 years, thrash has been a dominant force in heavy metal. The '90s proved to be challenging as the musical tides shifted in both ...

A rift with one of them and out of fairness to other former members, Mustaine said, according to transcript of the interview by Blabbermouth.net. Mustaine, 64, the founding frontman of the pioneering ...

There’s a word that Hirax singer Katon W. De Pena uses a lot: integrity. “People aren’t stupid, they listen. They recognise integrity,” he says at one point during our conversation. “We were stubborn.

In an Instagram post, the festival introduced the five-member group, fronted by Mike Muir on lead vocals, Dean Pleasants on ...

Dueling electric guitars ignited chaos onstage at the historic Haltom Theater over spring break as if it were 1989 again, the heyday of thrash metal. Gammacide ax-men Rick Perry, the band’s founder ...

Fans of classic thrash metal, get ready. Testament, one of the defining bands of the 1980s Bay Area thrash scene, just announced their “Thrash of the Titans” North America tour for 2026. The 20-city ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...