Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

When they first stepped onto the rock scene in the early 1970s, few would probably guess KISS would still be rocking today–50 years later. An eye-grabbing group with their painted faces and flamboyant ...

The 1970s were a pivotal time for music. Between the birth of heavy metal in 1970 and the development of many new sub genres under both the rock and metal umbrellas, it's a period of music history ...

What rock and metal albums of the 1970s would you pass down to your kids? As a kid myself in the 1970s, I'm thankful for my parents having a wide array of music tastes and have fond memories of ...

Heavy metal didn’t appear overnight—it was the result of decades of musical evolution, from blues and rock to psychedelic distortion and darker themes. While bands like The Who, Led Zeppelin, and ...

It was in 1970 when Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album, and today, many regard the English-bred rockers as the first true “heavy metal” band. That notion is certainly up for debate, ...

Despite a magnificent, state-of-the-art heavy metal production job, and being superior to anything released by Maiden in ...

UPDATE: Lemmy Kilmister died of prostate cancer, according to a death certificate obtained by TMZ. The rocker was also suffering from an irregular heartbeat and congestive heart failure at the time of ...

Heavy metal first hit the airwaves back in the 1970s and 80s, but many of the elders of metal continue to rock, shred, thrash, and headbang today. These are the oldest living heavy metal icons. ‘That ...