Three records in the right order teach more than a year of genre charts. The different types of heavy metal, from traditional to doom to the young guard, with a first record for each and the one to buy next.
By Declan Rourke
4 October · 8 min read
Explainers
They share a grandfather in Venom and almost nothing else. Thrash palm mutes so you can dismantle a riff while it plays; black metal tremolo picks so you cannot. Thrash writes paragraphs, bl...
By Declan Rourke
Essential Albums
From HammerFall's 1997 debut to Twilight Force: what makes a Swedish power metal band sound Swedish, from the Gothenburg studio sound to the heavier mid-tempo strain, and the bands that mapp...
By Julien Vasseur
Essential Albums
Seven clauses of a definition, each cut into the genre by one record: after Paranoid, Sin After Sin, Somewhere in Time, Metal on Metal, Hall of the Mountain King, Glory to the Brave and Opus...
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
Different Types of Heavy Metal, Explained
| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Oct 2026 | Goblin Cock | Traumanaut | Full-length |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Hyver | La fête de la forêt enchantée | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Hellucination | Penumbral | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | HateSphere | Guillotine | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Werewolves | You're Weak and You Know You're Weak | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Cultus Sanguine | Tears Painted Sky | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Tungsten | Ashes | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Ram | Against | Full-length |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Cardinals Folly | Let the Posers Fall! | Full-length |
The Weekly Dose
One email a week. One click to leave, on every one.
You're on the list
The next Weekly Dose lands in your inbox at the end of the week.
