Monuments guitarist John Browne hasn’t played in standard tuning for 20 years, ever since Tesseract’s Acle Kahney turned him onto the openness of DADGAD. It’s helped him forge massive soundscapes with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. US Band Knocked Loose performs on stage during the Heavy Metal ...

Having conquered the globe at various stages of its existence, metal is one of music's greatest counterculture movements, but there's no denying the genre has struggled for the past decade. From ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

Rolling Stone has compiled their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, and it's not too promising if you're a fan of modern metal. In fact, only one song from the 2010s made the cut, ...

As we recently explored at length, the current state of mainstream heavy metal is bleak, partially because so many of the biggest bands are more like pop acts with the occasional metalcore breakdown.

We’re big fans of Muse. They’ve got that epic arena rock thing going on, and while they’ve always erred on the side of heavy and groovy, they’ve never felt the need to fully push into the metal sphere ...