Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...

How did heavy metal — or just metal, as it's colloquially called — become the term that identifies the outgrowth of rock music that's more powerful and aggressive, with distorted guitars, thunderous ...

Skinflint. Vulvodyinia. Metal Orizon. Wrust. Demorogoth Satanum. You probably haven't heard of these names, but they're just some of the many African heavy metal bands featured in Edward Banchs' new ...