The banner hanging over the entrance of Metal Magic Festival reads “Proudly Gatekeeping Since 2008.” I walked under it this …

Finsterforst call what they play Black Forest Metal. Over two decades and six albums, the band from Freiburg has made …

Is metal walking dead? This summer I have handed out nearly a thousand questionnaires at eight festivals in six countries, …

I handed out 154 longform surveys at Copenhell this year and the resulting data shows something remarkable about metal’s obsession …

Extreme metal has always excelled at the aesthetics of demolition. For decades, the genre has found its visual identity in …

Sometime in 1991 or 1992, a voice spoke to Jim Mutilator and it has stayed with him ever since. He …