How 1980 transformed heavy metal as Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Saxon and Diamond ...

In the 1980s, heavy metal became a force to be reckoned with, so diehards should own these '80s albums by Slayer, Metallica, and others.

Heavy metal was supposedly apolitical, escapist. But was it? Some of it reveled in images of violence and the occult. Other offshoots—glam, the retroactively named “hair metal”—reveled in, well, ...

Here are 10 essential rock and metal '80s albums you should own on vinyl. The '80s were a really interesting time in heavy music because that was when rock and metal really started splintering off ...

The 1980s was great for metal. Indeed, these are three metal bands that formed in the 1980s whose heavy melodies still echo ...

Even the most intensely purist metalheads out there can't help but get a kick out of these glam metal songs from the 1980s.

Here are 10 producers who defined the sound of metal in the 1980s. The rise of hard rock and heavy metal in the '80s coincided with major changes in how heavy music was not only recorded and mixed, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judas Priest helped reshape heavy metal with an album that gave the genre a sharper and more melodic sound. The British band ...

As the hit Netflix show Stranger Things concluded its fantasy epic in December 2025, now is the perfect time for the arrival of Rock of Pages: The Literary Tradition of 1980s Heavy Metal. What, you ...

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