Essential Albums

The three members of Reverend Bizarre standing in an overgrown churchyard beside a wooden cross and an old tree

The Top Doom Metal Bands

Ilse Brandt · Apr 11, 2026

The members of Necrophagia

The Early Death Metal Bands That Started the Genre

Rafael Quintero · Apr 10, 2026

Immolation on stage

The Best Death Metal Bands of All Time

Rafael Quintero · Apr 10, 2026

Convulse on stage at Finnfest in 2020

The Most Underrated Death Metal Albums of the Nineties

Rafael Quintero · Apr 9, 2026

The four members of Blind Guardian standing in a row in front of a rusted metal wall for an official press portrait

The Power Metal Bands and Groups You Need to Know

Julien Vasseur · Apr 9, 2026

Wolf Hoffmann and Uwe Lulis of Accept live, Nashville, 2024

Heavy Metal Songs About War

Declan Rourke · Apr 8, 2026

Deathspell Omega on a dark stage, guitars in silhouette

The Most Influential Black Metal Bands

Eirik Solvang · Apr 4, 2026

Preproduction background painting of the fantasy city of Neverwhere for the Den segment of the 1981 animated film Heavy Metal

The Heavy Metal Movies

Declan Rourke · Apr 4, 2026

Tomb Mold band portrait

Modern Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Apr 2, 2026

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