Thrash metal was already in development when Rick Rubin started, but he felt it didn't hit its stride until certain bands came to the forefront.

“Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and a lot of that stuff was real minor key and dark ...

In a multimedia age, it’s surprising that so many artists still insist that “it’s all about the music”. As if that had ever ...

On the other hand, a plague would just get rid of us and leave the planet alone, so that’s probably a better solution.” ...

Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.

On Saturday August 22, 1987, 75,000 metalheads undertook a pilgrimage to Donington Park for the eighth staging of the annual ...

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A bloodless slasher, ’Trick or Treat’ is an effective satire of the Satanic panic of the 1980s. Read Pat King’s review of the new 4K release.

Doctor Dark,’ an opera about assisted suicide, is the latest album by the secretive group that for 50 years has been ...

Trondheim, Norway has actually served as a base for several of black metal’s finest chieftains: Enevelde’s phenomenal Brage ...

and bands fight the battle for that transfiguration every day — even now few Satan-heads are not fascist in their beliefs. Which means that black metal is presently where some of the most ...

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