Our regular metal column, and your pipeline to darkness.
It’s time to rethink what metal is and can be—plus the best metal tracks of the month
Which is the best album-for-album band in all of metal?
Twelve of the best new metal tracks of the month—that’s right twelve!
Everything sucks, but we can still have fun by playing metal really loud.
How Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana made me love metal.
The community steps up.
Some classic, black metal home-cookin’!
How to survive the quarantine, plus the best new metal tracks of the month.
A selection of some of the greatest riffs of all time, for a very special anniversary.
Five years down, TBD to go.
The best looks for metalheads this Halloween.
How metal survived a long period of really terrible graphic design.
A look back at 30 years ago in metal.
Some of the best metal albums that metalheads love to hate.
A high five to five great labels.
Who will be the next stadium-filling metal band?
Death metal makes us feel good.
We should only blame ourselves for littering the metal canon with assholes.
A new resolution for a new year.
You won’t see a lot of Best Metal Songs lists this year, and that’s kind of a bummer.