heavy metal music

On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors.

A look back on the album that kick-started a worldwide movement, half a century since Ozzy Osbourne first bellowed, “What is this that stands before me?”

In Ozzy Osbourne's hands, Satan gave a middle finger to hypocrisy and fearmongering.

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”