Metal music is a vast and diverse genre that has evolved significantly since its inception, branching into numerous subgenres ...

Why was nu-metal once so hated among music fans? Nu-metal fans on Reddit have been dissecting the genre's downfall and what led to such a significant shifting of view in the late '90s and early 2000s.

"We kind of had our foot in the door in all these different genres." Fear Factory has consistently sat somewhere between nü-metal, industrial, and groove metal throughout their entire career. Their ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: commercial success and artistic vision often do not go hand in hand. In fact, they often work against each other. In the case of industrial metal act Fear ...

Are they rock or are they metal? There are a handful of bands whose genre labels we can't seem to agree on from time to time. You may have noticed that a lot of our ...

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 ...