Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the powerful blowing horns one might associate with orcs right into Heavy Metal screaming, we admit we are pretty obsessed.

It is easy, oh so easy, to mock heavy metal. For 40 years, This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner's glorious spoof of metal's OTT excess — all volume knobs, spandex and cartoonish sexism — has remained the ...

“Diamonds and Rust” exists in two very different musical worlds. In one, it’s a folk ballad written and performed by Joan Baez; in the other, it’s become a heavy metal anthem covered by some of the ...

There have been quite a few little deep dives into some of our favorite, most iconic metal bands, that are currently in production or already finished, like The Ballad of Judas Priest. The official ...

Some of the greatest power ballads ever released came from the rock genre, even from glam metal bands like Warrant. The '80s band got some mixed reactions to their 1989 power ballad that ranked high ...

How a Rage Against the Machine rocker and former anthropologist turned it up to 11 with a heart-felt, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the band that “created the culture of heavy metal.” By Scott Roxborough ...

Released in April 1975 as the title track off Baez’s 16th studio album, “Diamonds and Rust” has an interesting backstory. Baez started writing the song in 1974, and a telephone conversation with Bob ...