Budgie is the poster child for a list like this. The iconic Welsh rock band was heavy when few other bands were ready to get that heavy back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their very first album, ...

From the late 1960s to 1970, three bands that would have a profound influence on later heavy metal appeared one after another ...

For heavy metal fans, the songs on this list are obvious. But say you are new to the genre, the tracks below represent a primer on heavy anthems. If you are starting a band, you might do well by ...

Here are 10 classic rock albums from the 1970s that used to be considered heavy metal. Heavy metal didn't just arrive overnight with a guitar in one hand a bottle of Jack Daniels in the other, but ...

While Osbourne himself was known as a pioneer of heavy metal, Black Sabbath's self-titled debut is widely regarded as the first heavy metal album in music history. (Fun fact: the whole album was ...

Plenty of guitar legends paved the way for what heavy metal became, but one revolutionary musician inspired most guitarists ...

If asked, "Who created heavy metal?", I believe it was Black Sabbath.Of course, rock music with a heavy sound already existed ...

This lesser-remembered British rock band was as influential to heavy metal as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple were, yet they never had the same success.

But like most cultural phenomenons, it didn’t just appear out of thin air. The sound, the swagger, and even the spectacle had been long since brewing throughout the duration of the 1970s and was ...

It may have been nearly five full decades since the 70s ended, but the era’s rock and metal sound is still alive in 2026. Those big riffs à la Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, the energy of bands like ...

The Burrn! music magazine marked the 40th anniversary of its foundation despite finding itself in a jam over drastic changes ...

Conrad Lant, the frontman for Venom, took the stage name Cronos, pioneered black metal and more or less made Satan a sideman.