Latest articles by Chris Chantler
Raise your flagons of mead to Valhalla! These are the 10 greatest Viking metal albums known to man and valkyrie
The 1970s may have been a golden decade for rock, but even the best bands out there made a few turkeys
A deep dive on 30 years of doom history to winkle out the hidden gems
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
One-man doom metal maverick Opium Warlords journeys further beyond the looking glass on new album Nembutal
Wytch Hazel serve up songs of faith and devotion on instant-classic new album III: Pentecost
Forget Bohemian Rhapsody - these are the 10 heaviest Queen songs ever
From Arthur Brown to Rammstein, rock and incendiary devices have always gone hand in hand
Iron Maiden return from the brink of tragey with their biggest and boldest album ever
Metal and Christianity aren’t mutually exclusive – but the two do have a poor track record together
US doomsters Brimstone Coven party like it’s 1973 on new album The Woes Of A Mortal Earth
Forget heavy metal’s pantomime dames – these horrormongers make you fear for your life
Funereal Seattleites Bell Witch renew a fertile partnership with old friend Aerial Ruins on new album Stygian Bough: Volume 1
Dark, brutal and magnificently ugly, these are the sludge albums you need in your life
Majestic to some, ludicrous to others, no one embodied 80s metal like Manowar. And their third album Hail To England was the jewel in their crown
Cult Dutch black metallers Carach Angren reimagine Frankenstein with added serial killers on new album Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Metal veterans Grave Digger focus on Scottish history on new album Fields Of Blood
Ten bands who prove there’s more to Denmark than pastries and Hamlet
Retro-rock linchpins Horisont channel 70s soft rock and classic prog on glorious new album Sudden Death
In the swamps of Florida in the early 80s, something evil was stirring. Its name was Morbid Angel
The masterpieces of miserablism that defined the shadowy genre that is goth metal
The original Hollywood bad boys Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx look back at Crue's Year Zero: 1981 - building their own stage sets, stealing girls clothes and living on hot dogs
What started life as a thrash novelty song became one of the greatest moshpit anthems ever written
