Br00tal-lists

Here’s to the dads working hard to raise kids in Slayer logo-filled households.

Are metal’s natural predators really that worrisome?

We honor the label’s 40th anniversary with a deep dive into its discography.

A difficult ranking, to be sure.

Here are 10 bands whose biggest influence you can spot from a mile away.

Some hard truths of older concertgoing from my metalhead mom.

Celebrating the instinctual poetry of Maryland’s king of hard-hitting boogey metal.

Because King Diamond never wrote a song about coffee.

The Philly blackened sleaze merchants list their favorite cape-clad metal acts.

Here are 11 killer bands to help you ring in the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s classic.

Here are 12 albums that revitalized the careers of their makers.

The kings of modern death-doom list the moldiest tracks by thrash metal’s satanic overlords.

Here are 13 bands we want on our stereos, not on our torsos.

As a wise man once said, ‘Ch-ch-ch ah-ah-ah.’

Here are 11 times that rappers shouted out metal bands by name.

Here are 13 non-metal albums that were unavoidable even for hardened headbangers.

Here are 11 metal tracks whose videos you’re better off not watching.

Check out 10 sonic flesh-grinders from South America’s second-biggest country.

Here are 11 bands who left you cocking an eyebrow upon first listen.

Here are 15 pop-punk tracks that remind you that the genre had chops at its best.