That anvil drop in Metallica’s 1985 heavy metal hit “For Whom The Bell Tolls” might be the most legendary part of the whole song. At the beginning of the track, the sound of a “bell” tolling ushers in ...

Almost 40 years have passed since AC/DC declared "rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution," but a biological researcher and lifelong fan of the band discovered the headbanging music does actually disrupt ...

A look at the evolution of the technologies that give rock its signature sound Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to ...

A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life. By Alex Williams Bob Heil’s career as a groundbreaking sound engineer ...