Heaviness and speed are two things attracting fans to bands like Iron Maiden or Slayer. It’s also what keeps some music fans away. But hearing other artists interpret heavy songs within their own ...

Heavy metal greats covering songs by other artists has been a mainstay of the genre since its ground zero. Literally: Evil Woman, one of the more celebrated tracks from Black Sabbath's game-changing ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Here are the five best prog metal covers of Black Sabbath songs! As the inventors of heavy metal – according to most genre fans and journalists, at least – Black Sabbath directly or indirectly ...

Since it started, metal has been using sonic intensity and unsettling lyrics to try and frighten the pants off the mainstream. That desire to freak out the uninitiated doesn’t start and stop at the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Mike Toomey shares his list of heavy metal ...

There is no exact recipe when it comes to the best thrash metal cover songs. But then you also have Sodom, who just sound like they're having fun while covering a surf rock classic from the 1960s. The ...

Who’s more “metal?” Halloween‘s Michael Myers or The Lord of the Rings’ Frodo Baggins? If you don’t give the Hobbit extra credit because of Led Zeppelin it’s not exactly an easy question. How can you ...