This album was Judas Priest's first top 40 album in the U.S.

A pairing that changed music forever.

Heavy metal enjoyed a serious boom in the 1980s, and the genre evolved significantly by the decade’s end. Many early 1980s tracks would predict the dark direction heavy metal would take, too. Let’s ...

These heavy metal albums helped kick off (or straight-up invented) a number of now-legendary subgenres in metal.

Here are 10 essential rock and metal '80s albums you should own on vinyl. The '80s were a really interesting time in heavy music because that was when rock and metal really started splintering off ...

Big hair, big sounds, and big albums that have stood the test of time — these are the most collected album by 11 big '80s metal bands (on Discogs). Here is a look at 11 big '80s metal bands' most ...

Bruce Dickinson, frontman of the legendary 1980s heavy metal band Iron Maiden, began teasing his upcoming studio album in August 2025. Thanks to hard rock vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, there is ...

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As the hit Netflix show Stranger Things concluded its fantasy epic in December 2025, now is the perfect time for the arrival of Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal. What, you ...

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 ...