Less than a decade after it had been forged in the white heat of the late 60s, British rock was in trouble. Its original pioneers had either split up, lost touch with reality or were spiralling into ...

In the beginning, heavy metal rocker band Saxon outpaced even the legendary Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. Fans, who will remember Saxon's 1980 "Wheels of Steel," can see Saxon May 21 at the Brown ...

Kevin Riddles was the original bassist for Angel Witch, one of the earliest bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that influenced countless modern metal bands. He was also a founding member of ...

Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham influenced heavy metal music when Page continued the heavy blues he’d begun with The Yardbirds. They certainly had aspects of what became ...