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 ...

"We kind of had our foot in the door in all these different genres." Fear Factory has consistently sat somewhere between nü-metal, industrial, and groove metal throughout their entire career. Their ...

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 ...

Some of punk and metal's most influential outfits arose from the Bay Area, with many of them serving as an exciting and ...

Who invented metalcore? Or who were the first metalcore bands that coined the genre? Tracking down the origins of "metallic hardcore," as the unabbreviated term initially was known, is a microcosm of ...

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 ...