Oh, the woe of influencing anyone else. To look out at the world, to listen and hear that the music you’ve made has inspired someone should be beautiful and affirming, a sign that you created a new ...

From Anthrax to Watain, they’ll muzzleload the amps, and they’ll all pull the shades on the sweet sunshine of Île Ste-Hélène and invoke Samhain in midsummer. Even Mephistopheles wants Freedom 55. Hey, ...

How did heavy metal — or just metal, as it's colloquially called — become the term that identifies the outgrowth of rock music that's more powerful and aggressive, with distorted guitars, thunderous ...