AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A heavy metal rock festival hoping to hold an open-air concert in an area known as the Dutch Bible Belt received a permit on one condition: no cursing. The Elsrock festival ...

A Dutch university is offering degrees in heavy metal. Summa College in Eindhoven is making headlines with its faculty ‘The Metal Factory’, which lets students study singing – as well as guitar, bass, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...