The Top 50 best metal debut albums ever
The greatest debut albums in the history of metal – as voted by you
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Dan Terminus just dropped the synthwave album of 2020
Synthwave wizard Dan Terminus’ Last Call For All Passengers is the perfect soundtrack to a party at the end of the world
Holy Moses revolutionised the 80s thrash scene. Why don't more people know about them?
Amid the boys club of 80s thrash, Holy Moses frontwoman Sabine Classen stood out. It’s time to give her band the credit they deserve
HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth
Rabid dogs, lost souls and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix – how HIM made the album that turned them into transatlantic superstars
We spoke to the metal-loving Satanic High Priestess running for Sheriff in New Hampshire
Metalhead sheriff-in-waiting Aria DiMezzo is proof the world would be a better place if more elected officials were Satanists
Watch history being made as Marty Friedman auditions for Megadeth in 1989
Watch the birth of the classic Megadeth line-up that made 1990’s Rust In Peace album
Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan: “Most of us don’t get to murdering, but we think of it day in and day out”
In this classic 2006 interview, Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan invited us to his Iowa home to check out his f**ked-up art and talk filth, frustration and murder
Dave Mustaine: “Drugs? Why would I want to glorify something like that?”
Dave Mustaine looks back on Megadeth‘s Rust In Peace album – “a masterpiece created in the darkness of heroin”
Shredders: a buyer's guide to the best fret-meltin’ albums
Amp-humpin’, high-octane instrumentalists! Is it music made by guitarists for guitarists? Not always!
The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it
Think Avatar are just about loud costumes and OTT gimmicks? Wrong. And now it’s time to get serious
The saviours of extreme metal are here, and they will spin your head off your shoulders
Pennsylvania’s Fawn Limbs are pushing tech metal forward with their next-level noise
Best headphones for vinyl 2020: 8 killer pairs to bring the best out of your wax
Whatever your budget, these are the headphones to buy if you're a vinyl nut
Kiss: how their long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe
For Kiss, the 90s was a roller-coaster decade that took them from the lows of a shelved ‘grunge’ album to a money-spinning reunion to a cataclysmic fall-out. Roll up and step into the Psycho Circus
The story behind the song: Budgie's Breadfan
A song about people who love money (not loaves) that came out of an ear-bleeding jam session, Breadfan became Budgie’s anthem and a fan favourite. Metallica thought it was pretty good too
Ex-In Solitude guitarist Henrik Palm returns to mess with your mind
Exclusive Watch Henrik Palm's cryptic new video for the track Given Demon from his forthcoming album, Poverty Metal
Chris Motionless: 10 albums that changed my life
Slipknot, Pantera, Weird Al Yankovic – these are the sounds in Motionless In White frontman Chris Motionless’ head
If Limp Bizkit and Carpenter Brut had a baby, it would sound like Mimi Barks
Genre-mashing star-in-waiting Mimi Barks is kicking trap-metal to the next level
The story of the historic day heavy metal killed new wave
It's memorial weekend in 1983, and the US Festival is about to change the musical landscape forever
Inside Slipknot’s Iowa: the psychotic masterpiece that ripped music a new asshole
Slipknot followed their game-changing debut album by going deeper, darker and more insane. This is the story of Iowa – still the heaviest album to top the charts
