One of the most influential metal bands is celebrating its 40th anniversary next year with a U.S. tour that includes a stop in the Massachusetts city where the band formed. Dream Theater will kick off ...

Legendary heavy metal band Pantera is bringing its new tour to a Massachusetts amphitheater this year. Pantera announced the “Heaviest Tour of the Summer” on Monday, Feb. 24. The tour will travel to ...

On July 13, 1968 — 57 years ago this month — a quartet of hard-rocking musicians that called themselves the Polka Tulk Blues Band played their first show in a tiny backstreet blues club in their ...

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 ...

Heavy metal is more than a genre of music. It’s a vast, vast world full of its own countless subgenres, thriving regions all around the world, and more bands than any individual person can keep track ...