Sabaton is not a Christian band: its singer has said so, and the songs use faith as history and setting. Powerwolf stages the Mass as theatre, and the openly Christian bands sound exactly like everyone else.
By Julien Vasseur
8 October · 9 min read
Explainers
Heavy metal is rock by blood and by paperwork, and a separate nation by allegiance. Heavy metal vs rock, settled in the Hall of Fame, on the radio, on the festival posters and in the guitar...
By Declan Rourke
Explainers
Separated by a generation, not by a schism. Every thrash musician was a heavy metal fan first, and what they built was an argument: that the tempos had slowed, the choruses had got too oblig...
By Declan Rourke
Essential Albums
No other band carries all four Sabaton traits at once: the history lyrics, the march, the low rough voice, the gang chorus. Grave Digger, HammerFall, Accept, Powerwolf, Turisas and Hail of B...
By Julien Vasseur
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
Heavy Metal vs Rock
25 years
Therion
Secret of the Runes
2001
10 years
Hate Beast
Sky Burial
2016
5 years
Gus G
Quantum Leap
2021
1 year
Antiquus Scriptum
Into the Realms of Death
2025
24 years
Overkill
Then and Now
2002 · Compilation
24 years
Impellitteri
The Very Best of Impellitteri: Faster than the Speed of Light
2002 · Compilation
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| 9 Oct 2026 | Tungsten | Ashes | Full-length |
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| 9 Oct 2026 | Goblin Cock | Traumanaut | Full-length |
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