Though many consider Black Sabbath and Judas Priest as the pioneers of heavy metal, Deep Purple also helped develop the harder, louder and more aggressive sound of rock in the late 1960s and '70s.

Heavy metal music has become a niche genre to an extent. While there are a couple of bands that have broken into the mainstream and garnered wide appeal, the majority of heavy metal bands seemingly ...

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 ...

Gillan told Rolling Stone Brasil that he thought the songs on Born Again are "great" but that the album's mixing was "ridiculous" because "all you could hear was the bass." "The bass level was so high ...