Essential Albums

Lordi on stage at the Electric Ballroom in Camden in April 2024, the band in full monster costume

Halloween Heavy Metal Songs

Declan Rourke · Apr 1, 2026

Overkill on stage at Rockharz in 2019

Thrash Metal Albums of 1984

Declan Rourke · Mar 31, 2026

Oscar Dronjak and Fredrik Larsson of HammerFall raise their instruments on stage, OVO Arena Wembley, London, 7 March 2026

The Heavy Metal Bands from Sweden

Declan Rourke · Mar 31, 2026

Mr. Big on stage under their gorilla-head backdrop, KK's Steel Mill, Wolverhampton, 22 March 2024, The Big Finish farewell tour

The Hair Metal Ballads

Declan Rourke with Saint Sylveszter · Mar 30, 2026

A thrash band playing a church hall

Christian Thrash Metal Bands: Believer, Tourniquet, Deliverance

Declan Rourke · Mar 29, 2026

The five members of the early Cathedral line-up photographed from below against a sandstone tower, in black and white

The Best Doom Metal Band

Ilse Brandt · Mar 29, 2026

Hate Eternal performing live on stage

The Most Influential Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Mar 28, 2026

Watain in a black and white band portrait

The Black Metal Bands You Need to Know

Eirik Solvang · Mar 28, 2026

Andy Marshall of Saor standing in a pine forest

Atmospheric Black Metal Bands

Eirik Solvang · Mar 27, 2026

Aosoth performing live on stage

French Black Metal Bands

Eirik Solvang · Mar 25, 2026

Autopsy performing live on stage

Scream Bloody Gore: The Album That Named the Genre

Rafael Quintero · Mar 22, 2026

Pallbearer playing a club stage under white and blue spotlights, guitarists and bassist in a row with the drummer behind

The Doom Metal Bands and Groups You Need to Know

Ilse Brandt · Mar 22, 2026

Unleashed, Johnny Hedlund at the front, in a band portrait

The Death Metal Bands You Need to Know

Rafael Quintero · Mar 21, 2026

Unto Others performing live in blue stage light and smoke, O2 Academy Birmingham, 1 October 2022

The Dark Heavy Metal Bands

Declan Rourke · Mar 21, 2026

Katalepsy on stage

Slam Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Mar 20, 2026

Doro Pesch singing into the microphone at the Underworld in Camden in March 2019

The 80s Heavy Metal Songs

Declan Rourke · Mar 20, 2026

At the Gates in a band portrait

Melodic Death Metal Bands Worth Your Time

Rafael Quintero · Mar 18, 2026

Batushka on stage at Academy 3 in Manchester

Modern Black Metal Bands

Eirik Solvang · Mar 18, 2026