Scott Ian Lewis on the dangerous state of live music, comics, and Necromanteum

"We didn't want to place any limits on ourselves"

Sonata Arctica are a Finnish metal band started in 1995 under the name Tricky Beans. With 10 studio albums in their discography, and a...

The best Helloween album in over a decade

"There are no certain facts in art, like there are in science. That's the beautify of it."

"If you’d ask me five years ago if I thought that it’s important to educate people in history, I probably would have said yes, but that it wasn’t my job to do it. Nowadays I feel that I can actually do this.”

Because of how campy power metal can be, there are many bands who, despite their sound, try to distance themselves from it. They fear...

It's been almost thirty years since the Seattle group of Fifth Angel released their last album, 1989's Time Will Tell. Among the many other...

Blood, the fourth LP released by Then Comes Silence, finds the Swedish group eagerly indulging '80s aesthetics as they dive into gothy post-punk; and while...

Love them or hate them, Cradle of Filth occupy a very important place in the heavy metal pantheon. With a style of music that in...