Essential Albums

Cannibal Corpse band portrait

The Best Death Metal Songs

Rafael Quintero · Aug 25, 2026

Aversions Crown on the main stage at Summer Breeze in 2017: a guitarist leaning forward in the foreground, the vocalist and a second guitarist at right, the band logo on a banner behind them in smoke and stage lights.

Australian Deathcore: Thy Art Is Murder and the Wave That Followed

Jonah Pike · Aug 25, 2026

The sleeves of Coma of Souls, Nothingface, Beneath the Remains and Endless Pain

Thrash Metal Bands by Country: The World Map

Declan Rourke · Aug 23, 2026

The Traitors vocalist screams into the microphone while a crowd surfer is passed overhead at the front of the floor at Holy Diver in Sacramento, February 2019.

Downtempo Deathcore Bands

Jonah Pike with Ilse Brandt · Aug 22, 2026

Slaughter to Prevail on the main stage at Hellfest 2024: vocalist Alex Terrible screaming into the microphone on the left, the drummer in the middle and a masked bassist on the right, in front of the band's logo backdrop.

Russian Deathcore Bands

Jonah Pike with Andrzej Sawicki · Aug 21, 2026

Ingested guitarist, seen from a low angle, playing a black seven-string guitar under orange stage lights on the stage of L'Olympia in Montreal

Brutal and Slamming Deathcore Bands

Jonah Pike with Rafael Quintero · Aug 17, 2026

The album sleeves of Crowbar by Crowbar, Through Silver in Blood by Neurosis and Come to Grief by Grief laid side by side

The Sludge Metal Albums That Made the Style

Ilse Brandt · Aug 17, 2026

Chelsea Grin's vocalist at the microphone in a backlit club, one hand raised, a guitarist in the foreground and the front row reaching toward the stage.

The Great Deathcore Vocalists

Jonah Pike · Aug 16, 2026

The sleeve of Under a Funeral Moon, Darkthrone, 1993

Under a Funeral Moon

Eirik Solvang · Aug 15, 2026

Arch Enemy performing live on stage

Women in Death Metal

Rafael Quintero · Aug 15, 2026

The sleeve of A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Darkthrone, 1992

A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Eirik Solvang · Aug 15, 2026

Disentomb on stage

The Heaviest Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Aug 14, 2026

After the Burial on stage at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston: vocalist centre stage in front of the band's lit backdrop, guitarist left, bassist right, crowd hands raised

Progressive Deathcore and Djent

Jonah Pike with Julien Vasseur · Aug 14, 2026

Hangman's Chair playing under blue stage light, the bassist with a white bass in the foreground and the drummer behind

The Modern Sludge Metal Bands

Gareth Llewellyn · Aug 14, 2026

Edge of Sanity band portrait by a cemetery cross

Death Metal Concept Albums

Rafael Quintero · Aug 14, 2026

Gene Simmons of Kiss in full Demon greasepaint playing bass on stage in 1980

The Heavy Metal Bands That Wear Masks

Declan Rourke · Aug 11, 2026

The members of Gorguts

The Best Technical Death Metal Albums

Rafael Quintero · Aug 10, 2026

A bargain bin of used records

Thrash Albums That Flopped: The Great Disappointments

Declan Rourke · Aug 10, 2026