Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: commercial success and artistic vision often do not go hand in hand. In fact, they often work against each other. In the case of industrial metal act Fear ...

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...

Are black metal bands now being formed at a higher rate than bands in any other metal genre? This question surfaced in the 11th hour while I was working on a different data mining project. I couldn't ...

Heavy metal and country music are not a match made in heaven. To the majority of music fans, they seemingly hold nothing in common and juxtapose each other in a plethora of different ways. However, ...

The following is a guest post written by Ryan Dyer, following The Five Most Brutal Metal Bands in China last month. The thrash scene in China is something fierce, with several beer-guzzling, ...

Though most would consider the musical genre "folk metal" to be a bit of an oxymoron, one local group of artists has made it their calling card. Five members strong and two years in the making, the ...