Some tense phone calls were exchanged before the American hair metal band Skid Row settled on their official name.

Rock Out and Defeat Corporate Greed   I've said it before, I'll say it again - I'm not a particularly "metal" person in real life. I'm usually mellow and soft-spoken.

While Kesha has previously brandished Explorers, Les Pauls and Starcasters, she's ushering in a new era with the traditionally metal Jackson ...

Cliff Burton’s playing style may have been an offbeat fit for the cutting-edge thrash of Metallica, but it worked perfectly ...

It wasn’t just me licking the bass — it was me doing a bunch of humping, and stuff like that! “So the part of my close-up comes, and I see myself licking the bass, and the video ends.