Not many bands manage to successfully combine Southern rock with sludge, but not many bands are quite so idiosyncratic as Mastodon. Formed in 2000 by the insanely talented Bill Kelliher, Brent Hinds, Troy Sanders, and…
Hailing from Ondres, France is the French heavy metal band known as Gojira. Brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier team up with Christian Andreu and Jean-Michel Labadie and originally called the name of their band Godzilla….
In 2001, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney teamed up to form Black Keys. For the first few years of the band’s life, they recorded lo-fi, scrappy little punk-blues numbers from basements, bedrooms, and empty warehouses….
A good theme song is critical for a James Bond movie. You can’t just slap any old tune over the opening sequence and call it good. The theme song needs to be cool, memorable, and…
Papa Roach is a metal band with a long history of successful songs during their career. It started with frontman Jacoby Shaddix and guitarists Jerry Horton and Ben Luther forming the band in 1993, signed…
Def Leppard started in 1977 in Sheffield, England. They were one of the most influential British heavy metal groups in the 80s. Pete Willis and Rick Savage formed the group when they were teenagers alongside…
In the 1940s, Frank Sinatra swayed his way into the hearts of music lovers everywhere. His popularity may have peaked and waned in the years that followed, but he remained, and remains, one of the…
The Swedish progressive metal rock group known as Opeth was founded out of Stockholm, Sweden in 1989 by lead vocalist and guitarist David Isberg. Opeth got its name from “Opet”, which means “City of the…
In 1961, 13-year-old George Kooymans and 15-year-old Rinus Gerritson of The Hague, Netherlands, formed a rock and roll band that was then known as the Tornadoes. The name soon changed to Golden Earrings when they…