A heavy metal logo is a brand, not a painting: it has to be read across a field. Priest's bottle cap, fork and lightning, Motörhead's blackletter, Leppard's flag and the Kiss letters Germany would not allow.
By Declan Rourke
2 October · 8 min read
Explainers
Death metal is not thrash played harder. It is thrash with four decisions reversed: the vocal stops being pitched, the guitars go down, the drums fill in the gaps and the production stops be...
By Declan Rourke
Explainers
Power metal band logos are built to be read from the back of a festival field: blackletter with the thorns filed off, chrome and gold, and emblems such as the Helloween pumpkin set inside th...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
Rank the top heavy metal bands by one test: take a band out of the story and count what falls down after it. Ten names, from the German passport to the pin that holds everything.
By Declan Rourke
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
Declan Rourke
Heavy Metal
The Heavy Metal Band Logo
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026 | Amon Amarth | The Allfather Awakens | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Butcher Babies | NIGHTBLOOM | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Of Virtue | Death of the Altar | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | GHØSTKID | Follow The White Rabbit | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | TEMIC | Ceiba | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Frozen Crown | The Legend of the Six Kings | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Haunt | Setting Course | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Firtan | Helios | Full-length |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Clegane | Ocean of Black Thoughts | Full-length |
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