Heavy metal has produced legendary artists celebrated for groundbreaking music, powerful live performances, and innovative ...

Today, we consider most "hair metal" bands hard rock bands that had a glamorous aesthetic in the '80s. But back then, people ...

In Finland, alternative bands such as Korpiklaani and Ensiferum spent most of the 1990s ushering in a wild new subgenre now known as “folk metal,” which blends accordions, violins and ...

At the helm of German folk metal band Tvinna – she is also a vocalist in the pagan folk band Faun – her lyrics are a positive encouragement to embrace life in all of its complexities ...

But it’s easier to make that choice when you’re innately inclined toward exuberance to start with, and folk metal fans are primed for that kind of upbeat engagement with the music and with ...

Veteran touring musicians are able to tune all sorts of things out, from tinnitus-inducing treble to terrible opening bands to snoring bandmates. Still, it must have been quite the endurance test for ...

Hańba! (which translates to Disgrace!) was formed in Kraków after all playing for a mixed bag of other bands (of amny genres including folk, indie rock and even heavy metal). Its members are: Andrzej ...

Bloodywood — the folk metal project of Karan Katiyar, Jayant Bhadula and Raoul Kerr — released their new album Nu Delhi today through Fearless Records, and you can hear it in full below. Their third ...