Genre Histories

Destroyer 666 on stage at a European club show

Australian and New Zealand Black Metal

Eirik Solvang · Jul 20, 2026

Sepultura on stage at Metalmania in 2007

Cogumelo Records: The Label That Built Brazilian Extreme Metal

Declan Rourke · Jul 19, 2026

stage dive crowd performing live on stage

Underground Black Metal Now

Eirik Solvang · Jul 19, 2026

Necrodeath performing live on stage

Italian and Iberian Black Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · Jul 14, 2026

Metal Blade album sleeves

Metal Massacre: The Compilation That Launched Metallica and Metal Blade

Declan Rourke · Jul 13, 2026

Suffocation on stage

The Death Metal Fanzines

Gareth Llewellyn · Jul 13, 2026

Coffins performing live on stage

Japanese Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Jul 12, 2026

Cadaver performing live on stage

Norwegian Death Metal, Before the Churches Burned

Andrzej Sawicki · Jul 11, 2026

Impaled Nazarene performing live on stage

Sarcofago, Vulcano and the South American First Wave

Eirik Solvang · Jul 10, 2026

Massacre performing live on stage

Tape Trading: How Death Metal Crossed Oceans in Padded Envelopes

Rafael Quintero · Jul 9, 2026

A teenager taping a music programme off the television

Thrash on MTV: Headbangers Ball and "One"

Declan Rourke · Jul 7, 2026

Iron Reagan on stage

Iron Reagan, Enforced, Municipal Waste: Crossover Today

Jonah Pike · Jul 6, 2026

Entombed live in Borlange, 2011

Sweden Before Death Metal: Merciless, Agony, Kazjurol

Declan Rourke · Jul 4, 2026

Impetigo performing live on stage

Death Metal and Horror Cinema

Rafael Quintero · Jul 4, 2026

A tape trader\u2019s desk in 1985

Tape Trading: How a Demo in a Padded Envelope Built a Genre

Declan Rourke · Jun 28, 2026

Blasphemy on stage at the Eindhoven Metal Meeting in 2021

Canadian Black Metal

Eirik Solvang · Jun 26, 2026

Pestilence on stage at Hellfest in 2019

Thrash Bands That Became Death Metal

Declan Rourke · Jun 25, 2026

Dawn Ray'd performing live on stage

British Black Metal

Eirik Solvang · Jun 25, 2026