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 ...

There are two wolves inside of popular music that are embroiled in a never-ending battle. One wolf feeds on cultural importance, societal relevance, and how much a band or song means something to the ...

On paper, hip-hop and metal shouldn’t work together — two polarizing genres with very different intentions and attitudes. However, thanks to a new wave of outfits in the late ‘90s and early 2000s ...

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 ...

The once-maligned genre of nu metal has since been re-evaluated as the important, influential, unique moment for music and culture that it always was, and it’s been everywhere lately, so we’ve been ...

When it comes to the music landscape, one can say that metal ruled the '80s, presenting a cultural turning point and an influx of talent as the genre grew and expanded. Being caught up in the "Satanic ...

Welcome back. With the world in great shape and no potentially life-changing national decisions looming on the horizon, I thought we could use this stress-free stretch of placidity to answer an ...

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has continued to shine as a ‘Renaissance man’ of today’s heavy music scene. Within the last three years alone, Heafy has managed to release two back to back critically acclaimed ...