Here are the best rock and metal songs of 2023 so far ... it's perhaps the most active heavy music has ever been. No, rock is not dead — far from it! The momentum is finally shifting back ...

And while keeping our minds open to the basic definition of metal (weighty riffs turned up to 11), we debated the fine lines between hard rock and ... 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time.

However, I think a few pop hits from back in the day would be even better if they were heavy, intense rock songs. Let’s look at just three examples, along with a few rock covers that prove my point.

In the below list of the Top 35 Southern Rock Songs, as chosen by the UCR staff ... Their pop hooks went a long way to getting the band’s videos in heavy rotation on the nascent music video ...

We love a heavy rock song as much as anyone else, but no one can deny the enticing pull of a soft rock hit every now and then. In the ’70s, rockers began to experiment with pop sensibilities.

Some of The Beatles’ songs were amazing hard rock tunes. One of their songs was one of the first heavy metal songs ever. The Beatles could have been more like Led Zeppelin if they wanted to be.

And with the popularity of new wave and heavy metal, southern rock was out ... Below, in my opinion, are the nine best southern rock songs from the ‘90s. Nashville band Screamin’ Cheetah ...