Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

For the uninitiated, MÖRK BORG is a rules-light role-playing game inspired by doom metal. Set in a decaying and ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

The rhythmic heavy metal slasher VR game God Of Riffs finally has a release date as it's coming to Meta Quest this September. Developed by Boss Music Games and published by Vyersoft, the game will ...

Revisit four songs from the late '70s, which all have iconic guitar riffs that more or less helped define heavy metal as we know it.

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

On The Riffs That Taught Me, Jacob Schmidt of Defeated Sanity revisits formative cuts from Suffocation, Symphony X, and ...

And why most of his guitars only have four strings. "I've always been intrigued by riffs, man. I think riffs are amazing; they are magical," Cavalera said. "There's something about it. Your ...

Metallica's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." "The first three Black Sabbath albums are like gospel. Everyone kind of universally agrees. They ...