Moral panics in the 80s and 90s didn’t help matters either as media coverage painted metal as a corrupting influence.

Thirty-five years ago, in February 1989, those were the five artists competing for the first-ever Grammy recognizing heavy ...

Charles Martin Smith steps behind the camera for a film that is rife with the tropes of heavy metal horror, with demonic ...

In fact, one could reasonably argue that music, particularly the stylings of heavy metal, is the main impetus behind the story, which unfolds against the backdrop of the Satanic Panic. Music was ...

Heavy metal and horror have co-existed with one another since the music’s inception ... If you look at Freddy Krueger in the original movie, he is a genuinely hideous figure with the backstory ...

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Back-to-back music festivals Aftershock and GoldenSky draw headbangers and boot-stompers by the tens of thousands.

A sprawling story of dark familial secrets, freewheeling prog and Åkerfeldt death growls, solos inspired by Peter Green and ...

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Essential to building tension, suspense and anxiety, the best horror movie soundtracks have a chilling power that can be felt long after the final credits.

"When we wrote our music," Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton says, "we weren’t writing it to fit in a category or a trend." ...