Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

Revisit four songs from the late '70s, which all have iconic guitar riffs that more or less helped define heavy metal as we know it.

On The Riffs That Taught Me, Jacob Schmidt of Defeated Sanity revisits formative cuts from Suffocation, Symphony X, and ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...

“They've all meant something, but they're the ones that sort of stood out initially." Iommi recounted the experience of writing the "Black Sabbath" riff, describing it as instantly special due to its ...

In Metal, longevity has always been part of mythology. Only a rare few bands who grind it out across multiple albums, tours, and (I'll just say it), years of failure, before finally breaking through.

Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath helped create heavy metal, and a new film series takes a closer look at the guitarist ...

After releasing tracks “Necrotic Usurper” and “Breathe the Night” as a sampler from their upcoming full-length on Bandcamp, the Fort Worth four-piece Nocturnal Spawn takes fans on a journey through ...

Move over, thrash — these are the six best hair metal albums of 1986. As the Bay Area headbangers were catching fire and ...