New year, new music! We're hitting the ground running in 2026 with big names and rising stars alike getting in early doors ...

“Life Is A Corpse You Drag” is about as hopeful as you’d expect from Mayhem, which means that it’s not hopeful at all. It’s ...

Years before King Diamond, drummer Matt Thompson played in Truncator, a short-lived death metal band with surprisingly ...

Take the title of The Spiritual Sound as a kind of syllabus, and you’ll find a heady list of musical reference points that ...

Waves Over Copenhell. Iotunn prove they’re something special. A powerful, Melodic Death Metal live album that showcases their ...

The Japanese kawaii metal band, whose global fame skyrocketed in the early 2010s, is celebrating a major career milestone.

Here is the best metal song of each year of the 1980s, including one runner-up for all 10 years!

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We look at a study on how death metal singers produce their otherworldly vocals, and therapeutic applications that researchers are investigating.

And that's a wrap! All year we've been bringing you regular round-ups of the best metal songs around, asking you to vote for your favourite, with the top three being added to our massive Best Metal ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Metal songs can come in a lot of shapes and sizes and that is part of the charm. The variety, the different influences, all of that can make each song something special. However, there are also some ...