These are our picks for the "Big 4" bands (and artists) of 1980s metal. That of course doesn't mean that there are only four legendary thrash bands, it just means they're the bands that are most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a band that has spent more than four decades shaking arenas and shaping the sound of modern heavy metal, there are still ...

Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of the iconic '80s heavy metal band Iron Maiden, will be stepping away from the stage to ...

The 80s were littered with bands that tried to merge snotty punk rock with glam metal, and it was usually a snooze (TSOL) or ...

Here are 10 producers who defined the sound of metal in the 1980s. The rise of hard rock and heavy metal in the '80s coincided with major changes in how heavy music was not only recorded and mixed, ...

Twisted Sister was one of the biggest bands of the hair metal/glam metal era, forming in the 1970s and releasing five albums ...

Don Dokken, frontman of the ‘80s metal band Dokken, has opened up about the band’s “disaster” reunion tour. On the Dec. 25 episode of the SDR Show, Dokken, 72, talked about how the band reunited in ...

One of the most popular hair metal bands of the 1980s has canceled its reunion tour as its lead singer abruptly retired. Twisted Sister canceled the band’s 50th anniversary tour “due to the sudden and ...

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For a band that has spent more than four decades shaking arenas and shaping the sound of modern heavy metal, there are still firsts left to conquer. Now, Pantera is preparing to check off a major ...