Decades after its rise, heavy metal has found its place in mainstream music, but it didn’t come without a fight.

Here are 10 essential metal albums from the 1970s that you should absolutely own on vinyl. Look, there's no real way to accurately describe the sound of '70s metal, mostly because the genre was ...

Lee Altus, Steve “Zetro” Souza, and Kragen Lum of Exodus perform onboard the cruise liner “Independence of the Seas” during the '70000 Tons of Metal' Heavy Metal Cruise Festival on Feb. 3, 2018, ...