But our overall winner for the week were black metal godfathers Venom, Lay Down Your Soul tapping into the primordial nastiness that helped spawn metal's most evil subgenre in the first place. This ...

A woman left looking “like an alien” by a metal jaw op which sparked an NHS apology to dozens of patients has called in cops to try and get justice. Jean Milne is one of 44 patients to receive a ...

The heavy metal genre isn’t inherently satanic. It’s hearty, loud, aggressive and loaded with guitar distortion and commanding vocals. But none of that makes it satanic. The devil, as they say, is in ...

(Editor’s note: Looking back on 2025, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach out to some of today’s artists and get them to weigh in on their favorites. What follows is the ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Album cover for “BLACK METAL 2” by Dean Blunt on Vinyl, The Art Pop album was released on June 11, 2021. Photo courtesy of boomkat The art pop and avant-garde Dean Blunt of Hackney, London is one of ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Helldivers 2 sets itself apart in the live-service game genre by adopting a novel spin on in-game currencies. While you'll regularly earn rewards from ...

A mysterious black ring appeared over Disneyland, spooking drivers passing by the Southern California amusement park Thursday morning. Photos show the alien-looking black band ominously hovering above ...

If your black metal shelf already holds the classics and you’re itching for something beyond the familiar beats, this list is for you. These 10 bands bring their own sound, mood, and raw intensity ...

Crying Orc, the man behind the black metal band Këkht Aräkh, has been met with a lot of polarizing discourse within the black metal listening community. Some people, including many black metal ...

Tom Fischer was a struggling young Swiss musician in 1984 when Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger threw him a lifeline: a striking cover for an album that became a heavy metal landmark by his next group, ...

Today, we present our list of five of the best black metal artists who don’t fit the stereotype in order to shed light upon what is perhaps the most misunderstood genre of them all. But what is the ...