Dayal Patterson

The story of Killswitch Engage’s controversial self-titled album – released 15 years ago today

In 2010, BMTH released There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret. - the album that set them on the path to becoming one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands

Canadian prog metal icons Voivod released their classic second album Rrröööaaarrr on this day in 1986. Drummer Away looks back on a career like no other

The records that made the Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist the man he is

How Meshuggah’s second album Destroy Erase Improve changed the face of extreme metal

“We were stumbling drunk for three days”: Amon Amarth’s Viking warlord Johan Hegg on the events that shaped his life

It may be the land of ice, snow and Bjork, but Iceland has a vibrant metal scene. These are the 10 bands keeping the Viking flame burning

Diving back to the birth of black metal and the records that have stood the test of time.

There's more to Italian metal than Cristina Scabbia and co

We look back at when Darkthrone's Fenriz had fifteen minutes of mainstream fame as a politician and his band continued to confound expectations, not least their own, with 2016's Arctic Thunder

An exclusive excerpt from Black Metal: Into The Abyss on Norwegian black metallers 1349

Behemoth's masterpiece not only marked Nergal's return from the brink, it served as extreme metal's crowning achievement

The story of Rotting Christ's beginnings in the Greek punk scene, taken from Dayal Patterson's new book Non Serviam: The Official Story Of Rotting Christ

We celebrate over three decades of extreme music with an epic count down of the all-time best black metal albums