Shadow of the Horns

Our regular metal column, and your pipeline to darkness.

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Shadow of the Horns: Redefining Heavy

It’s time to rethink what metal is and can be—plus the best metal tracks of the month

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Shadow of the Horns: Who has the best discography in metal?

Which is the best album-for-album band in all of metal?

Shadow of the Horns: A fall metal-stravaganza

Twelve of the best new metal tracks of the month—that’s right twelve!

Shadow of the Horns: Heavy Metal Summer

Everything sucks, but we can still have fun by playing metal really loud.

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Shadow of the Horns: Gateway Grunge

How Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Nirvana made me love metal.

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Shadow of the Horns: Surviving Self-Isolation

How to survive the quarantine, plus the best new metal tracks of the month.

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Shadow of the Horns: 50 Years of The Riff

A selection of some of the greatest riffs of all time, for a very special anniversary.

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Shadow of the Horns: Metal album covers have come a long way

How metal survived a long period of really terrible graphic design.

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The Best Metal Albums of 1989

A look back at 30 years ago in metal.

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Shadow of the Horns: Celebrating Controversial Metal Albums

Some of the best metal albums that metalheads love to hate.

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Shadow of the Horns: Kill Yr Idols

We should only blame ourselves for littering the metal canon with assholes.

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Shadow of the Horns: The underappreciated art of the metal song

You won’t see a lot of Best Metal Songs lists this year, and that’s kind of a bummer.