Here are Dark Tranquillity vocalist Mikael Stanne’s five favorite Swedish death metal albums. As a more than three-decade veteran of the Swedish metal scene, the 50-year-old Stanne is, of course, one ...

Black Death helped reshape heavy metal from Cleveland with speed, grit, punk attitude, and a fearless sound years before the ...

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise) For me, the best death metal feels like a location, a literal spatial world made accessible through music. There’s something about Ego Dissolution ...

Here are the 10 best death metal songs over 10 minutes long. Death metal in its purest form might be more riff driven, maybe with a horror or Satanic aesthetic. But it has other elements and can often ...

The Norwegian band’s early years were punctuated by headlines about death and church burnings. It went on to become a beacon of experimentation in the genre. Mayhem, from left: Hellhammer (Jan Axel ...

Mobile developer and publisher FunPlus has released a new update for DC: Dark Legion as part of Halloween 2025, adding a new mode and a new character to the mix. First off, you're getting Wonder Woman ...

Gaerea might be masked and anonymous, but their new album is all shaped by personal grief ...

A packed run across Europe will see the band move through 13 countries and nearly 30 shows in just over four weeks this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Since it was established in the early 1970s, Heavy metal has ...

A rundown of the best underground metal releases of June 2026, as picked by Heavy Consequence's Langdon Hickman and Colin ...