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Heavy Metal
26 articles
The original. The foundation. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath. Everything else grew from this.
Opinion What is the forbidden riff?
22 Jun 2026Graspop Metal Meeting. The Belgian festival that turned Dessel into a four-day metal city.
22 Jun 2026Wacken Open Air. The German festival that wrote the European metal festival playbook.
22 Jun 2026
Deep Dive Hellfest. The festival France built and the rest of Europe is still trying to catch up to
10 May 2026
Deep Dive Demon Spell. Italian occult heavy metal that stands at the door and knocks on Mercyful Fate's coffin.
25 Apr 2026
Reader's Pick Reader's Pick — the format starts here
25 Apr 2026More articles
- Riff Post 15 metal riffs every beginner should learn first 11 Apr 2026
- Opinion Support Acts Deserve Better Sound. Always. 9 Apr 2026
- Opinion This Week in Metal: April 7-13, 1987 6 Apr 2026
- Riff Post Why the opening riff of Symptom of the Universe still hits harder than anything released this year 5 Apr 2026
- Opinion 7 Forgotten Metal Bands From the 1980s 17 Dec 2025
- Video Drop Dolly Parton sings Duality (Slipknot) 14 Sept 2025
- Video Drop Paradise Lost - Serpent On The Cross 11 Jul 2025
- Video Drop Jack Black's Mr Crowley with Roman Morello and Hugo Weiss 6 Jul 2025
- Opinion 10 Rock Songs That Were BRUTALLY Banned 31 May 2025
- Opinion Belgium's Metal Bands That Deserve Your Attention 6 Aug 2023
- Opinion Heavy Metal and Aggression 5 Jul 2023
- Riff Post 10 Easy Metal Riffs (with Tabs) 18 Feb 2023
- Opinion The Funny Metal Bands That Are Actually Good 18 Feb 2023
- Opinion Tatiana Shmayluk: The Ginger in Jinjer 16 Jan 2023
- Opinion Germany, the Land of Metal 3 Dec 2022
- Opinion The Forbidden Riff. Every song you're not allowed to play in a guitar shop. 20 Nov 2022
- Riff Post 10 Iconic Drop D Riffs (with Tabs) 24 Jun 2022
- Opinion The best hair metal bands of all time 12 Jun 2022
- Video Drop Bill Bailey: Any Song Sounds Better in Heavy Metal 7 Aug 2021
- Video Drop Metallica - Turn the Page (Uncensored) 9 Apr 2015