Billy Strings will appear on a death metal album later this year. Here are a few bands we want to see him work with in the future.

Halestorm, Lord Of The Lost and Babymetal are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

The late Elliott Smith’s songs moved a whole lot of people, and they continue to pop up in unexpected places. This summer, we ...

Tetrarch's Diamond Rowe shouts out some of the best and most memorable guitar solos and leads in nu-metal history.

Credit: Vox Realis/Instagram A 12-year-old heavy metal prodigy named Vox Realis is making waves in the guitar world, after he was accepted into a mentorship program run by a former Megadeth ...

If Iron Maiden ever had to resort to using backing tracks, Bruce Dickinson is making it known that it will never be a part of the band’s repertoire. The lead singer, 66, spoke to Classic Rock ...

Kendrick Lamar because WHO ELSE!? No other rapper performs on THAT level. Story-telling, no backing track, energy + charisma!" one person wrote on X. "This was dope, especially towards the end.

In an interview for the most recent issue of Classic Rock Magazine (also on Guitar.com), Dickinson doubled down on ... “The idea that you can turn it into the Disneyland MAIDEN by using backing tracks ...

“Immigrant Song” features one of the most recognizable guitar tracks of the 20th century. Unfortunately for many filmmakers, Led Zeppelin has historically been difficult to barter with for the ...

but that doesn't mean we can rest on our laurels as there's also plenty of excellent non-horror metal tracks to dive into. That in mind, here are the results of last week's poll! Grandeur was the ...

Gojira, a popular French band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version ... included a track about the Amazon that warned, in ...