Genre Histories

Vio-Lence's bassist under the lights in Santiago, 2024

Prairie Sun and the Studios That Recorded the Bay Area

Declan Rourke · May 23, 2026

A record shop full of import vinyl

Japanese Thrash: Outrage, United, Casbah

Declan Rourke · May 21, 2026

Nokturnal Mortum on stage

Russian and Ukrainian Black Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · May 19, 2026

Bob Catley of Magnum performing live at the Liverpool Arts Club, 6 February 2015, black and white photograph

Birmingham, Where Heavy Metal Began

Declan Rourke · May 19, 2026

Battlelore, the Finnish Tolkien-themed metal band, in a 2022 promotional group portrait

Tolkien and Heavy Metal

Declan Rourke · May 18, 2026

The sleeve of Forbidden Evil, Forbidden, 1988

The Bay Area Demo Tapes That Changed Everything

Declan Rourke · May 16, 2026

Gorgoroth performing live on stage

Corpse Paint: The Complete History

Eirik Solvang · May 16, 2026

Accept in a band portrait from their early years

Accept's "Fast as a Shark": The First Thrash Song, by Accident

Declan Rourke · May 16, 2026

A queue of fans in denim and leather outside a club at night

The Stone, the Keystone and the Rest of the Circuit

Declan Rourke · May 10, 2026

Death Angel group portrait outdoors

Death Angel's "The Ultra-Violence": Teenagers

Declan Rourke · May 10, 2026

Cannibal Corpse performing live on stage

Why Death Metal Album Art Is So Graphic

Rafael Quintero · May 9, 2026

Scorpions on stage at the Manchester Apollo in February 1980, the whole stage in fog with walls of Marshall cabinets behind the band

Donington 1980: The First Monsters of Rock

Declan Rourke · May 9, 2026

Turbo performing live in 1982

Thrash Behind the Iron Curtain: Kat, Turbo, Arakain, Tormentor

Declan Rourke · May 7, 2026

Rob Halford of Judas Priest singing live on stage in studded leather, arms outstretched, bassist and drummer behind him under yellow stage lights

The Judas Priest Subliminal Message Trial

Declan Rourke · May 7, 2026

The Black Dahlia Murder posed outdoors in a forest, 2024

Michigan and the Rust Belt Sound

Declan Rourke · May 6, 2026

Voivod on stage at the Rock Hard Festival in 2015

Noise Records: The Berlin Label Behind Teutonic Thrash

Declan Rourke · May 5, 2026

Decapitated performing live on stage

Death Metal in the 2000s

Rafael Quintero · May 4, 2026

Desaster on stage

German Black Metal Bands

Andrzej Sawicki · May 1, 2026