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.

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 ...

Here are the 30 best rock and metal songs of 2023. New music was everywhere this year. With a couple thousand albums falling under the rock/metal/punk/etc. umbrella, we're talking about well over ...

The post The 30 Best Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2023 appeared ... Strauss and BABYMETAL delivered anthemic songs that were equal parts catchy and heavy. As we wait to see what 2024 bring us ...

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 ...

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.