On this day (April 22) in 1972, Deep Purple scored a No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart with their sixth studio album Machine Head. The album contained “Smoke on the Water” and “Highway Star,” which would ...

Here are 10 essential metal albums from the 1970s that you should absolutely own on vinyl. Look, there’s no real way to accurately describe the sound of ’70s metal, mostly because the genre was ...

Deep Purple is a deeply conflicting band for most rock music fans. On one hand, you have to say that their music is inescapable, and captures something exquisite about the spirit of the 1960s and ...