However, Mikael Åkerfeldt, frontman of Swedish renowned prog metallers Opeth, isn't convinced that is really the case.
A look at Swedish band Ghost and how their brand of campy, horror-infused pop-metal chimes with the silly side of heavy metal ...
From Radiohead to Black Sabbath, School of Rock and Tenacious D star Jack Back picks out his six favourite albums of all time ...
It was in early 1969, after a change of name from The Polka Tulk Blues Band to Earth, that Iommi heard the first Led Zeppelin album and vowed to make music that was, in his words, “even heavier”.
Me and my high school friends, when we got tired of bemoaning Chicago’s crappy sports teams and our lack of success with girls, would often pass the time by debating ...
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The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rocksix months before Black Sabbath was unleashed on the world. If songs such as Coven In Charing Cross and Pact With Lucifer didn’t make the band’s occult leanings clear, the self-explanatory ...
From Slayer singing about Dracula to Cradle Of Filth and Creeper taking style notes from Interview With The Vampire and Near Dark, this is how heavy metal has intersected with vampires in popular cult ...
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is now considered one of the greatest songs of all time, but a rumour about the track left fans avoiding it in their youth.
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