Metallica would realize these ambitions on future albums, as would thrash metal contemporaries such as Death Angel, Exodus, ...

Throughout heavy metal's dizzying evolution and splicing into countless subgenres (and subgrenres of subgenres), thrash metal's core DNA of high-tempo riffage, ripping solos and full-throttle, ...

With the pandemic keeping concerts as we know them cancelled, we’ve been posting some of our favorite live videos every weekday to help tide you over for when you can finally get to a show IRL.

It should have been The Big Five. It’s unthinkable now, but the ‘Big Four’ of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax came close to an expansion, with Testament seemingly set to ride hard to glory in ...

Danish band Artillery‘s 1990 album By Inheritance is frequently (and deservedly) considered one of the most underrated thrash metal albums of all time, and we’re thrilled to have teamed up with the ...

An unexpected lineup change has taken place within the Sacred Reich camp, as their long-time drummer Dave McClain stepped ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Kings of 21st century thrash Municipal Waste let it rip on "High Speed Steel," the scorching new song that serves as the band's ode to classic heavy metal. “'High Speed Steel' is our ode to an era ...

Brian May discussed the suggestion that Queen had helped invent thrash metal with “Stone Cold Crazy” and admitted the band didn't take the song very seriously. “It was one of the first songs we ever ...

As metal fans, we all feel something when we hear our favorite bands. The rush of the pit, the release of pent up anger/frustration/anxiety, the camaraderie we feel with our fellow metalheads. It all ...

Despite little concern for momentum, Orlando metal band Vital Pain have nonetheless managed to endure impressively. After forming and releasing debut album Poisoned by the Government in 1994, they ...