A seal matrix is broken when the reign ends, and only the wax survives, flaw and thumbprint included. The best heavy metal live albums are the impressions that came out clean, from Made in Japan to Alive in Athens.
By Declan Rourke
11 September · 9 min read
Explainers
Thrash metal is the point at which heavy metal stopped being about power and started being about velocity. The mechanics, the three parents, the four scenes, the ten records, where the borde...
By Declan Rourke
Essential Albums
A concept album is a domino run: every song set to fall into the next, one out of line and the whole floor stops. The heavy metal concept albums that lasted, from Welcome to My Nightmare and...
By Declan Rourke
Portraits
He joined Exodus at seventeen, inherited the writing when Kirk Hammett left for Metallica, and has played on every record the band ever made. Then he spent eight years holding Jeff Hanneman'...
By Declan Rourke
Eirik Solvang
Black Metal
The Black Metal Records Collectors Chase
Andrzej Sawicki
Blackened Death
Viking, Folk and Everything Else Death Metal Absorbed
Rafael Quintero
Death Metal
The Death Metal Records Collectors Chase
Gareth Llewellyn
Grindcore
The Underrated Sludge Metal Albums
Ilse Brandt
Doom Metal
The Doom Metal Fonts
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Heavy Metal
What Thrash Metal Actually Is: Sound, Speed and Style
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|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 | Slaughtercult | Devoured by Perversion | Full-length |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Massteron | Second in the Spheres | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Lacrimas Profundere | Lay Me Down O Silent Fear | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Crown Magnetar | The Hollowing of Godflesh | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Metalite | Discovery | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Stryper | Throne of Thorns | Full-length |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Midnight Prey | Jenseitsritt | Full-length |
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| 25 Sep 2026 | Krolok | Hričov - Súľov - Lietava | Full-length |
