The 1990s music scene exploded with creativity, but not every groundbreaking band got the recognition they deserved. While grunge and pop dominated the charts, dozens of innovative groups were quietly ...

Just because a band peaked with their first album doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad band. It also doesn’t mean their follow-up releases are total garbage. Some bands are just fortunate enough to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

Bands form and break up all the time, both amicably and not-so-amicably. While most bands break up over creative differences or poor album sales, others break up (either directly or indirectly) over ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For every wildly successful Metallica, there are countless metal bands that never grabbed the brass ring. In the '80s, extreme ...