The past few years have seen vinyl come back in a big way. Seemingly every new album gets pressed on a series of limited-edition colored records, and fans eagerly add them to their collection. While ...

Leading Whitesnake’s career-saving/bolstering 1987 album on the European version is the indomitable “Still of the Night.” At ...

Throughout heavy metal's dizzying evolution and splicing into countless subgenres (and subgrenres of subgenres), thrash metal's core DNA of high-tempo riffage, ripping solos and full-throttle, ...

Megaforce / Elektra / Blackened Recordings / Metal Blade / Def Jam Recordings / Def American Records / American Recordings / Sony / Nuclear Blast / Island / Elektra / Ignition / Sanctuary / Nuclear ...

Since its emergence in the early ’80s, thrash has always been metal’s most reliable genre. Trends come and go, bands rise and fall, but at the end of the day what we all really want is a fast riff and ...

“Now, you have a lot more groups that sound very similar, and you could tell, 'Oh, they're using this exact same plugin…'" Skolnick attributed the individuality of early thrash metal guitarists to the ...

Thrash metal pioneers Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer are called the Big Four, but many fans have long clamored for that number to be expanded to add bands including Overkill. The ...