Pushed off the big stages for a decade, Mexican heavy metal came up in the eighties all at once: a rock opera in a theatre, Luzbel's fallen angel in Spanish, a union of bands with its own label, and a young guard from Cancún on a German stage.
By Declan Rourke
25 September · 9 min read
Explainers
Sabaton is power metal: the heavier, mid-tempo, anthemic European strain, with a baritone at the microphone and history books where the dragons used to be. The music makes the case.
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Explainers
Thrash metal is the point at which heavy metal stopped being about power and started being about velocity. The mechanics, the three parents, the four scenes, the ten records, where the borde...
By Declan Rourke
Explainers
Coyote pups wrestle hard and bite soft, and the one that bites for real finds nobody will play with it. Metal concert etiquette runs on the same code: the pit, the wall of death, crowd surfi...
By Declan Rourke
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Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
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Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
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Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
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Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
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Heavy Metal
The Mexican Heavy Metal Bands
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Crown Magnetar | The Hollowing of Godflesh | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Stryper | Throne of Thorns | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Midnight Prey | Jenseitsritt | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Godflesh | Decay | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Krolok | Hričov - Súľov - Lietava | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Burner | No One Is Coming to Save Us | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | The Ocean | Solaris | Full-length |
