The bad news is that you cannot smoke at a heavy metal concert. It is classed as a public place and in the UK, you cannot smoke in shared areas such as music venues, workplaces and shops. This applies to music venues of all sizes, This means that if you are a smoker and you […]

If a new heavy metal group wants to distinguish itself then it will need to be branded well. This will involve cultivating an image that fans will find appealing. Throughout the history of this genre bands have often tried to defy convention and appear edgy. This is why so many of them would smoke cigarettes […]

Pollstar’s Year End Top 200 North American Tours (even if you don’t live in the U.S. and are reading this, you’ll be aware that tickets sold for a North American tour can make or break an artist more than those sold anywhere else on the planet) listed Metallica, Iron Maiden and the reformed Guns N’ […]

Heavy metal is a type of rock music identified by boisterous misshaped guitars, determined rhythms, thick bass-and-drum sound, and vivacious vocals. People often connect heavy metal verses and staging with anger, hostility, and chauvinism. The usual band line-up incorporates a singer, a guitarist, a drummer, and a bassist. Console instruments are occasionally used to improve […]

An always evolving style, heavy metal’s ways of staying on top of music and its lovers didn’t stop at the brief flirting between rock and rap with the nu metal label. While today music fans seem to be mainly interested in progressive metal, this doesn’t mean that that is all there is to the scene. […]

Contrary to popular (and mainstream media) belief, there is more than one way to dance at a metal event. Heavy metal has been around for close to 50 years and for sure it doesn’t sound the same as back then, so it’s only obvious that dance styles have also evolved. Dancing is not a minor […]