"Joey killed the drums! He was angry..." Dragonforce bassist Frédéric Leclercq on how he and Joey Jordison came together to form new band Sinsaenum

Mayhem are one of the most influential black metal bands on the planet, and their album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas remains a timeless classic

"Our band is a playground"

Dark Funeral's Lord Ahriman on the band's passion for always moving forward

Spearheading a resurgence in pagan culture and consciousness, the London By Norse festival drove Enslaved and Wardruna to our shores for three nights of esoteric ecstasy

Signing to Nuclear Blast and taking inspiration from the likes of Darkthrone and Agalloch, is 2016 the year of Ghost Bath?

Listen to the Polish veterans' first album in two decades

Having brought the likes of Cradle and Dimmu to an unsuspecting world, Cacophonous Records’ history is entwined with the birth of black metal. Can their resurrection herald a new, dark dawn?

Amon Amarth have long been metal’s Viking storytellers, but their latest album is a whole new epic. Gather round, children, and let Uncle Johan explain all...

We headed to the studio with Amon Amarth during the Jomsviking sessions

We investigate the crossover between the worlds of opera and metal

Motörhead’s influence reached far and wide, not least into the heart of the extreme metal scene

Metal and classical. Riffs and strings. It shouldn’t work, and yet history shows the two go together like Hetfield and “YEAH”s. We grabbed a conductor’s baton and endeavoured to find out why

Having moved far beyond their black metal roots, Norway’s Ulver are taking yet another leap into the unknown

EXCLUSIVE: We premiere the new video from Mortiis and talk to the man himself