Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

They were as infamous as they were influential, inspiring everyone from Venom to Ghost. This is how Death SS became a cult metal legend ...

Growing up, Euronymous and Necrobutcher listened to heavy bands like Venom (which released an album titled “Black Metal” in 1982), Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Bathory and Celtic Frost.

The British metal band Venom Inc. will perform at the Hard Rock Theater in Hobart. The band is one of the pioneering acts of British heavy metal and is considered a grandfather of black metal ...

Venom’s 1982 album Black Metal is one of the most influential records in history, detonating a chain reaction that would result in thrash, death metal and, of course, black metal itself – even ...

How Cradle Of Filth became Britain's most iconic black metal band; The twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS; The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing, See ...

Every musical genre and era has its definitive acts, with The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks standing out from the first British invasion and later forms such as punk having their ...

Profanatica – Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult “The reason I started writing Black Metal books is much more specific. By the 2000s, Black Metal was becoming much more widely known, and a lot of ...

But the truth is that very few bands have had the seismic and long-lasting impact that Venom had. Follow-up Black Metal cemented their reputation, and the reviews and features on them in the nascent ...

Venom made two timeless classics in “Welcome to Hell” and “Black Metal“, even going as far as influencing bands like Metallica and Megadeth. However, the band continued to release a lot of interesting ...

Back when The Crown were Crown of Thorns, they were just another Swedish melodic death metal band. A good one, but one of many. With the name change came a new purpose, and they really hit their ...