Machine Head is a pivotal album because it set the template for Purple’s entire future direction. "We made Machine Head in three weeks and three days, I think," said Ritchie Blackmore, "It was very ...

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Relentless riffs, soaring solos and pure ’80s energy, Confess unleash polished Euro metal firepower on the hook-heavy ...

This posthumous album of free improv pairs the late pedal steel virtuoso with a metal-adjacent guitar-and-drums duo, to bracing, gravity-defying effect. When you listen to enough improv ensembles, it ...

The studio is a place of precision and polish, but the stage is where music truly lives and breathes. A great live album isn't just a collection of hits performed in front of a crowd; it is a ...

The once-maligned genre of nu metal has since been re-evaluated as the important, influential, unique moment for music and culture that it always was, and it’s been everywhere lately, so we’ve been ...

The 20 best hard rock and metal albums of 1986 run the gamut from thrash to pop-metal, reflecting the vast array of heavy music subgenres that were catching fire as the decade entered its second half.

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...