Arch Enemy were making waves in the metal underground, but they needed someone special to take them forwards ...

Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame still has the fire after all these decades and just release Leave a Scar, his latest solo album which finds him at the forefront of modern metal. The singer even ...

The thought of Ed Sheeran — one of pop music’s most successful and prolific modern songwriters — stepping foot into the world of metal, moreover extreme metal, is both a hilarious and enticing fantasy ...

As someone who deals with depression, January and February are hard months for me. The holidays are over, and while winter is still going full-force, the coming spring makes things more damp and ...

Metal has been having a transcendent year. Such a transcendent year, in fact, that I feel comfortable calling 2018 the Year of Extreme Metal — a year in which bands across the extreme metal spectrum ...

For many people, their knowledge of extreme metal mainly springs from the activities of a small group of Norwegian black metal musicians in the 1990s. Various other musicians associated with the scene ...

Extreme has been living up to its name for over a quarter of a century. The band has often been at odds with the prevailing pop trends of the time, but the indelible partnership of its founding ...

New research suggests 'it could be that men engage in this genre mainly for status-seeking purposes' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

For most of the world, death metal is regarded as a bit much – not least in a conservative and religious society like Iraq. Like other forms of extreme metal, it is characterised by its cacophonic ...