The 1980s was a prime decade for heavy metal music. From Metallica to Black Sabbath, and many others in between, bands were firing on all cylinders. The decade gave the genre some of its biggest hits, ...

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.

Ozzy Osbourne was the premier voice in heavy metal. When he summoned all the terror in his being to sing “What is this which stands before me?” on the 1970 song ...