Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queensrÿche is keeping the momentum going throughout 2026. The veteran heavy metal band just added a new date to their previously ...

WARLORD is set for a long-awaited milestone this year as the heavy metal band embarks on its first-ever North American tour. Formed in the early ‘80s by drummer Mark Zonder and the late guitarist ...

They may have called Dee Snider and Twisted Sister a “two-hit wonder,” but those hits were loud enough to last a lifetime and ...

W.A.S.P. is officially heading back on the road, and this time, they're revisiting the era that defined them. The band has announced the 1984 To Headless 2026 North America Tour, a run that will ...

Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Sublime and Deftones have dipped back into the past to give a hit from the '80s a second life.

An iconic heavy metal band founded in the '80s kept things low-key on Wednesday as they were spotted leaving their Sydney hotel. The trio of rockers kept their faces hidden beneath hats and dark ...

Here are 10 producers who defined the sound of metal in the 1980s. The rise of hard rock and heavy metal in the '80s coincided with major changes in how heavy music was not only recorded and mixed, ...

For a band that has spent more than four decades shaking arenas and shaping the sound of modern heavy metal, there are still firsts left to conquer. Now, Pantera is preparing to check off a major ...

As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer ...

Burning Witches is currently touring the U.S., and we had a chance to speak with founding member/guitarist Romana Kalkuhl ...

Heavy metal had been slowly growing in popularity for decades by the time it hit its commercial peak. The ’80s are considered mainly the heyday of heavy metal in its official definition. That being ...

David Roach, the frontman and lead singer of the heavy metal band Junkyard, has died at 59 following a battle with cancer. The band confirmed the news in an Instagram post Sunday. “After a courageous ...