For heavy metal fans, the songs on this list are obvious. But say you are new to the genre, the tracks below represent a primer on heavy anthems. If you are starting a band, you might do well by ...

This album has aged so well.

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...

Rock and metal still have their wild moments, but these days have nothing on the 20th century. The 1970s, '80s and '90s were full of chaos and decadence. Heavy metal was essentially born in 1970, ...