Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

The 20 best hard rock and metal albums of 1986 run the gamut from thrash to pop-metal, reflecting the vast array of heavy ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

The pandemic rages on, but the music industry has finally settled into some semblance of normalcy in 2022. Album cycles and tours have been less affected by delays and postponements, as we all ...

Whether it sounds ugly or beautiful, metal is meant to make you feel good. However, for this list, we’ve put together some of the most joyful metal riffs that make fans want to get up and dance or ...

Revisit four songs from the late '70s, which all have iconic guitar riffs that more or less helped define heavy metal as we know it.

There was no shortage of riffs, solos and screams in 2021, as heavy metal’s old guard went toe-to-toe with younger headbangers in the quest for hard-rock supremacy.

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

Here are the 10 most metal My Chemical Romance riffs! Guitarist Ray Toro grew up on heavy metal, vocalist Gerard Way has cited Iron Maiden as a key influence ...

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude ...

The main criticisms against nu-metal during its heyday were that a) it wasn’t metal enough, and b) it was too mainstream, and therefore watered down its punch. While both of these takes have merit (I ...