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All rock bands want to be loved. Some may claim that their only real concerns are creative and artistic, but the truth is that everyone who has ever picked up a guitar and written a riff wants to pick ...

Although they remain something of a cult band in America, X Japan are one of the most successful metal/hard-rock bands to emerge from Japan, and have sold millions of records worldwide, mostly in Asia ...

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 ...

Commit to keeping an open mind before you read our list of the best prog song by five hair metal bands. No, we’re serious. We know as well as you do that the ’80s glam metal boom was not necessarily ...

Hammers of Misfortune are about as unpretentious as prog metal outfits come. Nothing about the San Francisco outfit is sexy or in line with current metal trends: the band is made up of middle-aged Bay ...

Jim Matheos doesn't take a mathematical approach to the music he writes, even if it is commonly described as the thinking man's heavy metal. "When it comes to music, I try not to over-analyze it," ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

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 ...

Commit to keeping an open mind before you read our list of the best prog song by five hair metal bands. No, we're serious. We know as well as you do that the '80s glam metal boom was not necessarily ...