The map of Heavy Metal
http://www.mapofmetal.com/#/home Someone actually laid out the metal genres in the form of a world map, with song samplings and little wikipedia definitions to describe each one. Fun little site

How far heavy metal culture has come and how wrong 'they' were!
It has been almost 3 decades since heavy metal exploded onto the world, and since along with it came the various controversies that attempted to dirty and spoil heavy metal music and culture. Yet despite the many attempts by Christian groups, parent

Heavy Metal Documentary's
This looks pretty cool Ed Rivadavia Sr. Director of digital marketing, (RCA Music Group), Jason Lekberg marketing manager, (Epic Records) and owner Daniel Herrdmann, (Tiefdruck Musik) are all confirmed to take part in the final filming production fo

DJ Muggs vs Heavy Metal Kings
This is a quote from C-Lance's Facebook page, he hinted that there will be a Heavy Metal Kings vs DJ Muggs album soon. And that's not all... ILL BILL, Vinnie Paz & Jus Allah ALL with Solo albums coming. PLUS Heavy Metal Kings VS DJ Muggs!!! PLUS Heavy

Ghost (swe) Heavy Metal/Psych Rock/Doom Metal
Okay, so think Mercyful Fate meets Blue Oyster Cult, sprinkle in a little Candlemass and Black Sabbath, and you have Ghost from Sweden. Check these guys out. I just got their debut OPUS EPONYMOUS. It is awesome!!

HEAVY MAGAZINE, Germany
Received this message from a friend in Germany: Quote:Hey Scott, the new ULTMATUM got an amazing review (with colored coverpic) in the new HEAVY MAGAZINE, 11 of 12 possible points. HEAVY is on of the biggest metal mags here in Germany and you can get

Early 70's Underground Heavy Metal
There was Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and and um...Uriah Heep and oh Budgie as well. But once you get there you start struggling for anymore. Truth is there were alot of bands making a loud racket albeit it only on record working in and

The Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal Vol 4: The 00's.
The Collectors Guide to Heavy Metal Vol 4: The 00's by Martin Popoff & Devid Perri Anyone get this book yet? I have the first three Collector's Guides, as well as the all-inclusive Guide circa 1995 and quite enjoy them all, even if I don't always agre

1983 Heavy Metal TAKES OVER THE WORLD!
At this point, listing every single heavy metal release would be nearly impossible as the scene had EXPLODED by this time. So I am just listing the most popular albums, or at least the albums that I remember from that era. Of course the BIG album of that

The 8 Worst Things To Happen To Heavy Metal Ever
Got this from http://downtuned.net/2009/07/20/the-8-worst-things-to-happen-to-heavy-metal-ever/ - can you add anymore ? Ahhh…metal. A much derided, mocked and generally-laughed-at genre. And with good reason. It’s ludicrous. It’s juvenile. It’s bloody

1985 Heavy Metal TIE BREAKER
1985 tie breaker Dokken - Under Lock And Key Stryper - Soldiers Under Command

3 Inches of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal
New song. Sick!

Can heavy metal still scare/shock you?
We all remember the feeling of discovering a band that scared the crap out of you. Some metalheads broke themselves in pretty quickly, but others went through the long process of desensitizing themselves bit by bit. I remember the first song that scared

1985 Heavy Metal UP THE WAZZU!
Gonna have to break this one up into two polls. HOLY COW there was a lot of heavy metal in 1985 and I'm positive I didn't list everything. Let me know what I missed. It was hard to just cut the heavy metal releases down to only 15 for the poll. I left off

Blind Test Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal
Blind test composé de 26 extraits sut le thème du hard rock / heavy metal ( vous verrez, ma vision de ces deux genres musicaux est assez large) avec de nombreux classiques, aussi bien au niveau des morceaux que des groupes. 1 point pour l'artiste, 1 autre