Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Onstage at Anaheim’s Honda Center arena, Tobias Forge is not himself. Instead, he is Papa Emeritus IV, leader of the theatrical Swedish metal band Ghost, singing from behind a latex mask and corpse ...

If you haven't gotten into artists like Carpenter Brut and GoST, you are seriously doing yourself a disservice. The synthwave movement is one of the most fun things happening in heavy music right now.

It’s looking more and more likely that the Venn diagram of Ghost fans and internet detectives is slowly becoming two completely overlapping circles, as it seems someone found evidence of a new song ...

Over the past decade, bombastic, theatric, operatic metal Swedes have become unlikely mainstream rock stars. They won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 2016 and have scored three nominations ...