Genre Histories

Shadow of Intent on the Dogtooth stage at Download Festival 2024, two guitarists and the vocalist in front of the band backdrop, a packed crowd in front Chapter 4

The Second Wave: The Deathcore Revival of the 2020s

Jonah Pike · Jul 9, 2026

Suicide Silence's vocalist performing on stage at Full Force festival in Ferropolis, Germany, in June 2022, one hand raised to his head and a microphone in the other.

November 2012: How Deathcore Lost Mitch Lucker

Jonah Pike · Jul 8, 2026

Jon Bon Jovi performing before the crowd at Wembley Stadium, London, 1995

Metal Studies: When Academia Took Heavy Metal Seriously

Declan Rourke · Jul 8, 2026

A teenager taping a music show off the television

Thrash on MTV: Headbangers Ball and "One"

Declan Rourke · Jul 7, 2026

Acid, early 1980s. Photo: Iron Fist Magazine

The Dutch and Belgian Heavy Metal Scene

Declan Rourke · Jul 7, 2026

Brand of Sacrifice guitarist leaping in mid-air in front of the drum riser under white, blue and magenta light beams, the band's logo banner behind the stage, on the Summer Slaughter tour in 2024

Summer Slaughter: The Tour That Put Deathcore Next to Death Metal

Jonah Pike with Saint Sylveszter · Jul 7, 2026

The three members of Ufomammut in a bare concrete room, the drummer crouching in front

Italian Doom Metal

Ilse Brandt · Jul 7, 2026

Tony Foresta of Iron Reagan on stage

Iron Reagan, Enforced, Municipal Waste: Crossover Today

Jonah Pike · Jul 6, 2026

Rob Halford of Judas Priest astride a Harley-Davidson in front of a wall of Marshall cabinets

Motorcycles, Highways and the Freedom Myth

Declan Rourke · Jul 6, 2026

Quorthon of Bathory performing

Sweden Before Death Metal: Merciless, Agony, Kazjurol

Declan Rourke · Jul 5, 2026

The members of Impetigo

Death Metal and Horror Cinema

Rafael Quintero · Jul 4, 2026

Blood Ceremony singer Alia O'Brien in a crushed velvet dress singing behind a red organ, the guitarist playing behind her

Doom Metal Fashion

Ilse Brandt · Jul 4, 2026

The Faceless playing live on the open-air stage at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival: guitarist with a green guitar, bassist, vocalist and second guitarist under blue and orange stage lights, crowd hands raised in front.

Sumerian Records and the Sound of Late-2000s Deathcore

Jonah Pike · Jul 3, 2026

Fit for an Autopsy on a club stage in blue haze, the vocalist pointing out over the crowd from a monitor wedge, a guitarist headbanging over a seven-string Chapter 3

Splinters: Deathcore in the 2010s

Jonah Pike · Jul 2, 2026

Mercyful Fate at rehearsals, 1983. Photo: courtesy of the band

The Progressive Rock DNA in Heavy Metal

Declan Rourke · Jul 1, 2026

Whitechapel bassist Gabe Crisp playing a black bass on stage at Mayhem Festival 2009, shot from a low angle against the stage truss

A Deathcore Timeline: Every Year That Mattered

Jonah Pike · Jul 1, 2026

Chelsea Grin's vocalist points out into the crowd from the front of the stage under blue and green lights, the band's logo backdrop and drum kit behind him, New Century Hall, Manchester, December 2025.

Doom, Demos and the EP: The Format That Built Deathcore

Jonah Pike · Jun 30, 2026

The crowd at Monsters of Rock, Donington, in August 1984, facing the empty stage rig between sets

1984, Heavy Metal's Biggest Year

Declan Rourke · Jun 30, 2026