Fans of the genre know that these metal bands are great but those who aren't in the know may find them offensive.

Hey look, a bunch of big-name thrash guys have a new band called Nefarious! The band consists of vocalist Katon W. De Pena ( Hirax ), guitarists Rick Hunolt ( Diehumane, ex- Exodus) and Doug Piercy ( ...

Death metal bubbled up from the swamps of Florida in the mid-1980s – and Morbid Angel were one of the first bands to leave a ...

Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal ...

Les Binks, who was the drummer of Judas Priest during the band's critical years in the 1970s, died in a London hospital.

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

We witnessed the explosion of technical death metal courtesy of one band who only have a pair of albums to their name. Deathcore also rattled the underground toward the end of the decade (you won ...

The Norwegian band’s early years were punctuated by headlines about death and church burnings ... weeks before the pioneering Norwegian black metal band Mayhem set off for a North American ...

To release one studio album is an accomplishment in and of itself, but these metal bands didn’t stop at one; they’ve produced over 10 studio albums.

The best heavy metal producers of all time are the unsung heroes of the genre. They are the ones who helped pull out the best ...