This 'Heavy Metal Folk' Classic Called the 'Template' for 'Stairway to Heaven'

Over 50 years after its release, Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is still considered one of the greatest songs in rock ...
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The 20 greatest heavy metal solo albums of all-time

Heavy, raw, and more intense than anything he did with Skid Row (yes, even Subhuman Race). Many critics, pundits and personalities within the current-day hard rock/metal community have praised Child ...
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Only 2 Metal Songs Made Rolling Stone’s Top 250 Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) List

The first metal appearance on the list goes to Mastodon, whose 2004 Leviathan track "Blood and Thunder" landed at No. 230. Slightly higher up the list at No. 174 was System of a Down 's "Chop Suey!," ...
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On This Day in 1988, This Heavy Metal Band Became the First in History To Sell 7 Million Copies of Back-To-Back Albums

Def Leppard broke a pretty big charting history record with the release of 'Hysteria' in 1987 and 'Pyromania' in 1983.
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Biff Byford on Lemmy, inspiring thrash metal and the greatest heavy metal riff ever written

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ned Wakeman Saxon frontman Biff Byford has been belting his heart out over heavy metal ...
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“My producer Mickie Most said, ‘We can’t let a wild boy like Hendrix in there. We have to control the song, Don’”: ’60s icon Donovan tells the story of the “heavy ...

In fact, Donovan had originally wanted Jimi Hendrix to play on Hurdy Gurdy Man – and would have given the song to Hendrix if ...