Canadian metal band Voivod will bring their genre-bending style of heavy metal to Revolution Music Room in Little Rock, ...

You might not know these rock and metal bands, but you should by the end of 2026. From hard rock to hardcore, nearly every subgenre of rock and metal is seeing a surge of new acts that deserve to be ...

Tougher than glam rock and pre-dating punk by a couple of years, the Heavy Metal Kids were swashbuckling rock’n’roll pirates fronted by doomed livewire Gary Holton. In 2004, Classic Rock traced the ...

The West Coast's biggest heavy metal, rock and punk festival — Aftershock — lineup was announced Wednesday featuring more than 140 bands across five stages making 2026 the largest they’ve ever ...

Heavy metal’s origins began in the late 1960s, though it didn’t begin to really kick off until the 1980s. An extension and evolution of rock and roll, heavy metal was influenced by quite a few ...

Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

Founded in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris, the band pioneered the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and influenced Metallica, ...

Alternative rock guitarists aren’t often associated with heavy metal shredders. You might connect the dots between certain bands and Black Sabbath. But the pointy axes and two-handed tapping of many ...