The biggest difference between the heavy metal of today and heavy metal during the glory days of the 1980s is that today it is rife with division. Mainstream versus underground. “Extreme” versus ...

Pop-punk, pop rock, indie pop, power pop. All rock styles that clarify right in their name on what genre they're based — pop music. But what happens when a band in one of these traditions tries to ...

Pop might be an icky word for heavy metal diehards. But remember, “pop” is just short for popular. And if you’re favorite band sells millions of records, then they are, by definition, popular. History ...

Having done the 25 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs and chosen from the heavy, it’s now time to take a gander at the lighter side of the heavy, to what is called “Pop Metal,” “Nerf Metal,” and “Poseur Metal ...

Here, we will be presenting our list of five black metal musicians who not only rank among the genre’s finest but are united by their love of pop music. Indeed, many of the most fearlessly authentic ...

Of course Def Leppard ruled the '80s. Has there ever been a better time for long-haired boys (and sometimes girls) to top their metal instincts with the kind of pop smarts those guys flashed on ...

Four years passed between Def Leppard’s massive Pyromania and the band’s pop metal masterpiece Hysteria. The masterpiece tested the limits of the compact disc and became a thoroughly ...

If we could identify one incandescent moment to come out of the coronavirus pandemic, it would have to be having large stretches of time to listen to albums. Yes, in 2020, most of us binged on Netflix ...

The animated/live-action hybrid follows Babymetal as they look to save "the magical world of heavy metal music." The “Babymetal” phenomenon is coming to America. The Japanese pop-metal group, made up ...

Japanese metal-idol band Babymetal have been tearing through the heavy metal world since 2014, when they released the self-titled Babymetal, but it was only in April that they made their U.S.

Babymetal is moving into the digital series arena. The Japanese pop-metal music sensation is teaming with Warner Bros digital studio Blue Ribbon Content and Japan’s Amuse Inc. subsidiary Amuse USA to ...