Lists 10 of the Best Metal Summer Jams to Annihilate Your Beach Party June 8, 2021 12:10pm People tend not to think of metal as summer music, but that’s probably only because they’re not listening to the right songs. At its most high-energy and hedonistic, metal is not just appropriate listening when […]
Lists 19 Heavy Tracks That Got Us Through the COVID Quarantine June 4, 2021 9:15am For many metalheads, the COVID-19 lockdown was one of the most defining moments in their lives, if not the most defining moment. Between the the cancellation of all live music, the government-issued stay-at-home order, and […]
Lists 10 Joke Metal Bands Who Are Seriously Heavy June 1, 2021 11:35am Most metal bands take themselves extremely seriously — which is why they’re so much fun to make fun of. Claiming your art is no laughing matter is the ultimate challenge to anyone with a sense […]
Lists 11 Bands Who Wouldn’t Be Here Without Dracula May 26, 2021 10:18am Horror icons have come and gone over the ages, but few if any have remained as immortally loved and feared as Count Dracula. Bram Stoker’s vampire supervillain has been so thoroughly used and adapted over […]
Lists Every Track On Dio’s ‘Holy Diver,’ Ranked Worst to Best May 25, 2021 11:11am No matter how grim, humorless, and super-cereal you are about metal, you just can’t hate Dio‘s Holy Diver. The 1983 album encapsulates everything rad about heavy music, from its big swingin’ riffs to its elaborate […]
Lists The 21 Greatest Metal Albums Since the Turn of the Millennium May 21, 2021 11:27am The past twenty-one years have been a period of unprecedented change for heavy metal music. Since the ball dropped on the ’90s, the genre has seen countless rises, falls, mutations, and reinventions, all in the […]
Lists 10 Nu-Metal Bands Who Were Surprisingly Real As Hell May 18, 2021 9:47am Nu-metal had problems. Today, a fresh generation of listeners remembers the genre for its on-the-face-of-it diversity and its tradition-crushing heaviness — which is good, because those things were what made it worthwhile overall. But those […]
Lists 10 Extreme Metal Songs That Would Work Perfectly at a Strip Club April 23, 2021 8:13am Ah, the strip club, a place where beautiful, athletic women are showered with dollar bills by wide-eyed onlookers and boys become men over $17 Bud Lights. For years, strip clubs have been a place where […]
Lists The 20 Greatest Heavy Songs Specifically About Smoking Weed April 20, 2021 10:41am There would be no metal without weed. Had the sonic kale never spread across the world as an emotion-enhancing alternative to working and/or drinking one’s self to death, many of the blue-collar heroes from down-and-out […]
Lists 10 Metal Bands You Can Rely On to Kick Your Ass Every Time April 8, 2021 8:26am At the end of the day, life is a crapshoot. Especially in the post-COVID world, one feels like any sense of stability or consistency they have can collapse entirely at a moment’s notice. Not only […]