Metalachi, Celina Rescott and The Embers and Foxtide are among the bands playing San Diego this week.

Pop might be an icky word for heavy metal diehards. But remember, “pop” is just short for popular. And if you’re favorite band sells millions of records, then they are, by definition, popular. History ...

Decades after its rise, heavy metal has found its place in mainstream music, but it didn’t come without a fight.

Max Martin might just be the world’s most successful songwriter of the 21st century. And like his protégé, Shellback, he began his career in a heavy metal band before transitioning to pop music. While ...

Only weeks after offering his final performance and being honored by a lineup of rock and metal's past and present during the "Back To The Beginning" concert, heavy metal god and pop culture icon Ozzy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Few contemporary artists have shaped an entire genre the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A popular English heavy metal band will release its first new album in five years. Loathe will release “A Stranger to You” on July ...

Here, we will be presenting our list of five black metal musicians who not only rank among the genre’s finest but are united by their love of pop music. Indeed, many of the most fearlessly authentic ...

Here are 10 hair metal music videos that defined 1980s (and very, very early 1990s) pop culture. Big hair. Bigger hooks. Even bigger budgets for fog machines and neon lighting. If there’s one thing ...