Behold, four of the finest British heavy metal bands from the Thatcher era. Diamond Head may not be known to casual heavy metal fans, but they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal ...

and the bombast of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. From its inception, four bands have powered thrash metal's ...

Metal benefitted greatly from the mainstream in the 80s and, to some degree, in the 90s. There were a lot of bands that gained a lot of popularity thanks to the historical context. This doesn’t ...

Back in the early 1980s, if you were picking up a guitar with dreams of making it big in metal, there was one clear path: ...

Here's sixteen tracks, one from each Iron Maiden album that charts a course through the career of the absolutely seminal ...

At 72, Hill is the longest-serving member of the British heavy metal group, having been in the band continuously since 1970. Who better to untangle the origin story? “Ken and John and myself ...

Two leading lights of the West Coast metal scene visit San Francisco Friday when LA band Deathchant and Portland ... the same New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) groups that inspired early ...

Judas Priest has the most heavy metal band name this side of Iron Maiden ... multirange screams set the fog-machine standard for British heavy metal. Lemmy Kilmister and his trio played louder ...