When Sabaton formed in 1999, power metal was about the dirtiest word you could utter. While most of the world was doing it for the Nookie, Gothenburg was transforming Sweden’s heavy music topography ...

A deep dive into favorite screeching and shrieking vocalists from 2000s speed metal and thrash, featuring Engage, Deathhammer ...

Allow us to introduce you to Dragoncorpse, an international band who might be the only ones playing a hybrid style of deathcore and power metal. And, yes, it's sick! Deathcore, since its inception, ...

The 2000s were a wasteland for guitar heroes. Nu metal’s seven-string groovers had little time for plank-spanking pyrotechnics, and even Metallica metaphorically glued Kirk Hammett’s fingers inside ...

Fans are absolutely smitten with Towers of Gold, the new album by Sacred Outcry, and there seems to be a consensus that we've already been blessed with the best power metal album of 2023. The band ...

There’s a clip of Metallica’s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett playing air-guitar along to Judas Priest’s set at Power Trip, the three-day concert featuring hard-rock and metal superstars, held in ...

As the week rolled into the weekend, it was time for ProgPower USA to take it up a notch. Day Three and Day Four had both undergone numerous roster changes, including almost half of the Day Four ...

A popular German power metal band was quite shaken up when multiple members suddenly left the group, all at the same time. The band has gotten back on its feet, though, and has been born anew with ...

As a publication, we at Phoenix New Times try and present a wide array of cultural coverage. It’s our goal to talk about bands from across the musical spectrum with equal parts passion and authority.

Visa fee hikes are one of the reasons that a popular German power metal band won’t tour in the United States, its lead singer says. In fact, said singer claims that a bunch of different factors are ...

Horns up! There is nothing like listening to insane guitar riffs, heavy bass, soaring, even growling vocals, and a powerful drum beat. Even better, much of metal music is based on classical theory.