This is not how they teach it in Rock Star 101: Spend three decades cranking out unapologetic speed metal. Work demoralizing day jobs to support your rock ‘n’ roll habit. Watch bands you influenced go ...

From missed millions to botched tours, discover how the pioneers of thrash metal were also the unluckiest band in rock ...

What did it take to entice Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Super Size Me‘s Morgan Spurlock, and some 500 chain-smoking, beer-drinking, leather-jacketed metalheads out into the freezing New York City rain ...

What band was the most influential in establishing the sound of metal when the genre emerged and found its audience back in the early 1980s? If you know it's Canadian metal band Anvil, more ...

When we interviewed Anvil! The Story of Anvil director Sacha Gervasi back in April, he told us the documentary’s “happy ending is what’s happening after the film.” And it’s true — since the movie’s ...

Anvil started out as Lips in 1978, but by the time it released its debut album, Hard ‘N’ Heavy, in 1981, it was going by the name we know today. The first three Anvil albums, including Metal on Metal ...

If you haven’t seen the gonzoid documentary Anvil about this similarly absurd and bigger-than-life power-metal ensemble, mark this page and hie thee to your screen of choice … ah, welcome back. Anvil ...

Recently, the Power Trip Live Festival was announced. Taking place during an October weekend in Indio, Calif., on the grounds where Coachella occurs each year, it features a Who’s Who of hard rock and ...