DragonForce is power metal: the European melodic school with the tempo pushed to its limit, a clean high voice on top and an eight-bit colour in the leads that changes the sound, not the genre.
By Julien Vasseur
8 November · 10 min read
Explainers
Neoclassical metal spent the eighties as a bumblebee with no prince inside it: Malmsteen's runs and Mike Varney's Shrapnel stable played for the stopwatch, until Stratovarius, Rhapsody and G...
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Explainers
Deathcore and metalcore stand on the same breakdown and the same hardcore song form. Metalcore hangs Swedish harmonies and a sung chorus off it; deathcore brings blast beats, tremolo riffs a...
By Jonah Pike
Essential Albums
Fifteen symphonic power metal bands, from Rhapsody's five hired string players in 1997 to Fellowship in 2022, each argued from the one record that proves the case and set against the archive...
By Julien Vasseur
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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
What Doom Metal Actually Means
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Heavy Metal
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| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Nov 2026 | Crescendium | DRAC | Full-length |
| 11 Nov 2026 | Canticum Diaboli | Compendium Horribilis | Full-length |
| 12 Nov 2026 | Asgrauw | Solips | Full-length |
| 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 |
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