Here are the 80 best rock and metal albums ... of "heavy music." Are there any two decades that, when combined, match the totality of what was accomplished in the '80s and '90s?

Pantera flew the flag for commercial metal in the '90s and brought truly heavy, aggressive sounds to the mainstream. Meanwhile, the underground continued to flourish and, with the New American ...

Megadeth and more that continued to innovate and move heavy music in new directions. READ MORE: The Most Shocking Rock + ...

George Michael and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit In the future, musicological historians will look back at the 1990s phenomenon of fusing heavy metal and ... late-80s and early-90s Ministry were ...

Symphonic Metal Day (Nov. 13) celebrates a genre that merges the sophistication of classical music with the raw power of heavy metal. Originating in Europe duri ...