Epic metal bands hand the whole length of a song to the tale and let the chorus fend for itself. From Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol and Manowar to Visigoth and Atlantean Kodex, the line that power metal turned upside down.
By Julien Vasseur
14 November · 10 min read
Explainers
Powerwolf is power metal of the heavy German kind. The organ, the choirs and the Latin change the colour of every song; the drums, the riff and the chorus decide the genre.
By Julien Vasseur
Explainers
Fifty-five cycles a second is the open string deathcore was built on. What drop A is, how seven-strings and the race lower got the genre there, and the songs that live in it, from Unanswered...
By Jonah Pike
Genre Histories
Competition was not a colourful detail about the scene, it was the mechanism. A dozen bands inside twenty minutes of each other, watching each other every week, is how a style gets made in t...
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
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Doom Metal
What Doom Metal Actually Means
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Heavy Metal
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| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Nov 2026 | Artificial Brain | Antillia | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Iron Savior | Deathbringer | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Cro-Mags | The Age of Quarrel: 40 Years of Quarrel | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Cutterred Flesh | The Shapes of Hidden Malice | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Sinister | Lucid Nightmares | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | NervoChaos | Chaosmongers | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Walls Of Jericho | System Error: Humanity | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Silvertomb | The Interpretation of Nightmares | Full-length |
| 13 Nov 2026 | Asphodelia | Unfairy Tale | Full-length |
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