Portugal's Gaerea have signed with Century Media Records and released the one-off single "Submerged." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

Some bands, such as Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, incorporated more sludgy guitar sounds into their music than others.

Our guest on this episode of Gear Factor is Three Days Grace guitarist Barry Stock, who plays his favorite riffs from when he ...

Ozzy Osbourne had surprising comments about heavy metal, including how his band and the Beatles fit into the genre.

Now comes album three and it seems Blackbraid have struck black gold once again, because this isn't just another knockout LP; ...

Iron Man is not named after the Marvel comic, which wasn’t available in the UK at the time that Sabbath wrote the song. (This ...

Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id — of heavy metal, died ...

Following Ozzy Osbourne’s ousting from Birmingham, England’s Black Sabbath, a band he helped found with Tony Iommi, Terry “Geezer” Butler, and Bill Ward, the group reformed with American vocalist Ronn ...

On a sweltering Monday night on August 4th, Volbeat and Halestorm brought the Greatest of All Tours Worldwide to Tampa, ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over ...

What is the greatest guitar riff of all time? We asked readers More than 1,500 of you commented on our critic’s favourite rock riffs. Here, he rounds up the 30 most popular omissions ...

Sure, you can study Tony Iommi’s riffs and guitar tone, assemble the vintage amps, and make a pretty good facsimile of their sound (as countless bands have done). But you’ll never be able to rival the ...