This album was Judas Priest's first top 40 album in the U.S.

For a movie about a heavy metal drummer, Sound of Metal revels in the silence. Blackgammon’s music is a punishing hiss that pummels fans with distorted guitars, growling vocals and double-kick drums.

But pediatric audiologist Michelle Hu had mixed feelings about the film's message. "It was a good production but they [dropped] the ball on a lot of things, hearing and audiology-wise," she tells ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Darius Marder’s sensational drama Sound of Metal didn’t win Best Picture (Nomadland) at the 2021 Academy Awards, but the critically-acclaimed film did capture Oscar gold, ...

The movie Sound of Metal, starring actor and rapper Riz Ahmed, tells the story of a drummer whose sudden hearing loss changes more than just his career. A man whose life revolves around music faces a ...

What does the world feel like to someone with hearing loss? And what does it sound like? On Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal, supervising sound editor Nicolas Becker sought to answer these questions.

I love the sound of metal. That is, the unmuffled rumble of V-8 and V-twin engines of American muscle cars and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, respectively. I own a bike of significant loudness. I also ...

Changing up your sound as a band can be really hit or miss with how the results turn out. Some acts have seen huge success from doing so, while others have been completely trashed by not only their ...

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...