Genre Histories

An outdoor metal festival crowd at dusk

Thrash Festivals: Wacken, Hellfest and the Reunion Circuit

Declan Rourke · Jun 24, 2026

Brujeria performing live on stage

Mexican Death Metal Bands

Rafael Quintero · Jun 23, 2026

Angelus Apatrida live at Hellfest, 2022

Italy and Spain: Bulldozer, Necrodeath, Legion

Declan Rourke · Jun 20, 2026

Sodom on stage

How German Thrash Fed Black Metal

Declan Rourke · Jun 18, 2026

Proscriptor McGovern of Absu on stage at Mystic Festival in 2025

Black Metal Album Art and the Artists Behind It

Eirik Solvang · Jun 18, 2026

Albums by the big four at the time of the shows

The Big Four Concerts: Sofia 2010 to Yankee Stadium

Declan Rourke · Jun 17, 2026

Convulse performing live on stage

Finnish Death Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · Jun 12, 2026

Testament on stage

What Happened to the Bay Area Scene

Declan Rourke · Jun 12, 2026

A school exercise book filled with band name ideas

How Thrash Bands Got Their Names

Declan Rourke · Jun 11, 2026

Mercyful Fate on stage in 2022, the Baphomet sigil behind them and the bone microphone stand in the singer hands

Mercyful Fate, King Diamond and the Theatrical Line

Eirik Solvang · Jun 11, 2026

Fredrik \u00c5kesson of Opeth on stage at Tuska in 2019

Death Metal Bands That Started as Something Else

Rafael Quintero · Jun 11, 2026

Skeletonwitch on stage

Blackened Thrash: Aura Noir, Deströyer 666, Skeletonwitch

Declan Rourke · Jun 9, 2026

Massacre performing live on stage

The Demos That Built Death Metal Before the Albums Did

Rafael Quintero · Jun 9, 2026

Root on stage at Satan's Convention in Speyer in 2014

Czech, Slovak and Hungarian Black Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · Jun 7, 2026

Death performing live on stage

Death Metal and Censorship: The PMRC Years

Rafael Quintero · Jun 6, 2026

The Grieghallen concert hall in Bergen seen from the hillside above the city

Grieghallen and the Bergen Sound

Eirik Solvang · Jun 6, 2026

Mortal Sin on stage at Jalometalli in 2008

Australian Thrash: Mortal Sin and Hobbs' Angel of Death

Declan Rourke · Jun 5, 2026

Twenty minutes and one bridge: the bands lived on this side, the clubs and the radio station on the other

Why the East Bay and Not San Francisco

Declan Rourke · Jun 5, 2026