Over 50 years after its release, Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" is still considered one of the greatest songs in rock and roll history. However, the tune's legendary status owes much to the ...

Though most would consider the musical genre "folk metal" to be a bit of an oxymoron, one local group of artists has made it their calling card. Five members strong and two years in the making, the ...

Sometimes you just need some happy go lucky, heavy folk tunes, don't you think? The world is super serious (read in Al Gore's voice) right now, music is a great release from that. That's what ...

Finland’s approach to modern folk music is vastly different than the singer-songwriter-centric subgenre most Americans are familiar with. Over there, it’s not so much a harbinger of heartbreak or ...

Another thing that Taiwan and Finland have in common is heavy metal music. Representative Freddy Lim of the Taipei ...

This should go without saying, but heavy metal is more than the Euro-centric look that mainstream media wants to portray it as. Because for every pasty, lanky Scandinavian in corpse paint or denim ...

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...

HU band members Gala (left), Jaya (center) and Ono pose for a picture at their studio in Ulaanbaatar on Dec. 27, 2023. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/Crux.) Listen ULAANBAATAR – When Pope Francis visited ...

Taiwan’s representative to Finland, Freddy Lim, has used a joint heavy metal concert in Helsinki to reach Finnish politicians ...

Here’s a fun way to kick off your otherwise hum-drum Wednesday: there’s a new song and video from Indian folk metal outfit Bloodywood! The most prominent musical features of “Gaddaar” are nu-metal ...