Genre Histories

The four members of Job for a Cowboy standing and crouching on a railway track beneath an overpass in autumn light, Moon Healer era press photograph

Reunions and Anniversary Tours: Deathcore Looks Back

Jonah Pike with Saint Sylveszter · Jul 20, 2026

Gawthrop's four members playing in a low basement club covered in posters, the singer shouting into the microphone, in black and white

Korean Doom Metal

Ilse Brandt · Jul 20, 2026

Sepultura on stage at Metalmania in 2007

Cogumelo Records: The Label That Built Brazilian Extreme Metal

Declan Rourke · Jul 19, 2026

Sinmara as dark figures in a forest clearing

Underground Black Metal Now

Eirik Solvang · Jul 19, 2026

Fallujah vocalist at the microphone in front of the band's logo on the stage backdrop, a guitarist at left and the drummer at right, a fist raised in the crowd, Goldfield, Roseville, July 2023

Deathcore Record Labels

Jonah Pike with Andrzej Sawicki · Jul 19, 2026

Rotting Christ on stage at the Tons of Rock festival in June 2024, the band logo on the drum heads

Greek Heavy Metal

Declan Rourke · Jul 19, 2026

An aerial view of the Ravenscraig steelworks at Motherwell in the 1960s, rolling mills and blast furnaces across the whole site

Working-Class Rage

Declan Rourke · Jul 18, 2026

A Studer A800 twenty four track tape machine with a reel loaded and the whole meter bridge lit above it

The Analog Tape Era

Declan Rourke with Curtis Vance · Jul 16, 2026

The four members of Cough standing under red and white patterns projected across their faces and jackets

The Doom Metal Tattoo

Ilse Brandt · Jul 15, 2026

Mortuary Drape in hooded robes

Italian and Iberian Black Metal

Andrzej Sawicki · Jul 14, 2026

Cirith Ungol on a festival stage

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

Uriah Heep at Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, 2022. Photo: Aggie Anthimidou

Heavy Metal Subgenres by Decade

Declan Rourke · Jul 13, 2026

The members of Coffins

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

Born of Osiris on an outdoor Vans Warped Tour stage in daylight, the bassist doubled over his instrument, the vocalist with a boot on a monitor wedge, the drummer behind and photographers in the pit

Deathcore on the Warped Tour

Jonah Pike · Jul 11, 2026

Mystifier on stage in red light

Sarcofago, Vulcano and the South American First Wave

Eirik Solvang · Jul 10, 2026

Carcass in a band portrait, Jeff Walker and Bill Steer among them

Tape Trading: How Death Metal Crossed Oceans in Padded Envelopes

Rafael Quintero · Jul 9, 2026