Announced plans to release a new  "The Best Of 1990-2010" compilation album. From Fear To Eternity : The double-CD. The band started releasing studio albums in 1980, and they seem to get more popular with time. Their most recent studio album is 2010's The Final Frontier which went...

“Freak on a Leash” thrust Korn head-on into the mainstream, landing the California metal boys at #6 and #10 on the alternative and mainstream rock charts, respectively. With distorted guitars and tense dissonance, the heavy metal track carried aggression and metallic grind. Jonathan Davis’ lyrics are similarly effective...

Written by guitarist Jerry Cantrell, this juggernaut of thundering, low-end guitar and bass riffage bludgeons you relentlessly about the head and body. The song’s predominate 7/8 time signature (the most dastardly of time signatures – they’ve done studies) adds to the affect of keeping you off center. Cantrell...

The longest song Pantera ever recorded, “Cemetery Gates” stood out on the band’s already impressive fifth album, Cowboys from Hell, which was released in 1990. Frontman Phil Anselmo has said the song is about a female friend who committed suicide. “When I wrote the lyrics I did not...

Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan recently ruminated on what bands are considered metal and what bands are not. While speaking to UGO.com about his new album with Loaded, The Talking, McKagan weighed in on the metal question.“See, I don’t know what is ‘heavy metal,’”...

Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax are collectively known as thrash’s Big Four – the cornerstones upon which the entire thrash movement is built, and the compass one uses to orient oneself when navigating the turbulent waters of that aggressive, precise, angry, powerful metal variant. But thrash does not...