What is the first thing you associate with “Heavy Metal”? Screaming? Violence? Satanism? Gorey? Too loud? Just “noise”? Metal music has developed a stigma throughout its near 50-year existence due to its more aggressive musical […]
Celebrating Black History Month: 7 Black Artists Who Kill it in Heavy Metal and Hard Rock
When you think of heavy metal and hard rock, ‘diverse’ isn’t the first descriptor that comes to mind; the genre is primarily-dominated by white men, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t talented black and POC […]
Heavy Metal LGBT+
Heavy metal has always had an affiliation with the dark – here Edmund Goldrick investigates how this darkness strays beyond the occult and spooky into the sociopolitical. This was […]