heavy metal

Will you rock through your shopping list or stay away depending on what they play?

The term's origins are a tangled part of music history.

MetraPark will become the epicenter of thrash metal on November 22 when the final leg of Slayer's world tour comes to First Interstate Arena.

In news that gives new meaning to the title of Quiet Riot's classic Metal Health LP, NME reports that Swedish doctors have diagnosed what seems to be the world's first official case of heavy metal addiction.

Oh the horror!! Or... Total awesome sauce? And the sauce in this case is real pigs blood!! Remember back in the day when the satanic buzz was all about Ozzy and his oral bat beheading? That's child's play now days. This past Sunday night in Brooklyn NY, Swedish death metal band Watain opened their show by bringing a goat's skull to the front of the stage and sprayed screaming fans with a deluge of

Since the members of Iron Maiden are all well into their 50s it shouldn't be a big surprise that some fans of the seminal heavy metal band are now old enough to collect retirement benefits. Instead it's what a 71-year-old woman from Stockholm, Sweden and her 81-year-old husband did with their Iron Maiden record collection that's noteworthy.

This is the perfect way to relive those golden years back in the '90s before you hardened your heart and started listening exclusively to death metal. It's a metal guitar version of your 12-year-old self's favorite song -- 'Barbie Girl' by Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua.

Just when we thought America's favorite video game, 'Super Mario Bros.,' couldn't get any better -- enter YouTube's 311Erock, aka rocker Eric Calderone. In this video, Eric shows us that not all metal riffs and/or tones are used for moshing, horror movies and making parents angry.

Remember the Balloon Boy? That would be Falcon Henne, who for a few moments had the nation on edge after his parents claimed the-then six-year-old had sailed away unaccompanied in a hot air balloon.

Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi recently told the BBC that he wasn’t really aware of the term “heavy metal” for years. “I mean, I always looked at what we did as heavy rock,” he said. “And when that term was first mentioned to me… Somebody said, ‘Oh, you play heavy metal...