Genre Histories

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

Fans in patched and studded denim battle vests at the barrier during Bloodstock Open Air festival, 2026

The Battle Jacket

Declan Rourke · May 1, 2026

Masacre performing live on stage

South American Death Metal

Rafael Quintero · Apr 27, 2026

Poison, Los Angeles, 1986. Photo: Marsha Traeger, Los Angeles Times

80s Hair Metal Fashion

Declan Rourke with Saint Sylveszter · Apr 27, 2026

Municipal Waste in a band portrait

The New Wave of Thrash Metal: Municipal Waste, Evile, Warbringer, Havok

Declan Rourke · Apr 27, 2026

Stallion, 2019. Photo: Eindhoven Metal Meeting

The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal

Declan Rourke · Apr 26, 2026

A skater in a drained pool, with friends and a stereo

Skateboarding and Thrash: How the Deck Became the Uniform

Jonah Pike · Apr 23, 2026

Onslaught in a band portrait

British Thrash: Onslaught, Sabbat, Xentrix, Acid Reign

Declan Rourke · Apr 23, 2026