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Video Drops (38)

26 Jul 2026 Death SS — Love Until Death (Official Video)
26 Jul 2026 Heavysaurus — Pommesgabel (Live at Summer Breeze 2025)
26 Jul 2026 King Diamond — Melissa (Live at Graspop 2016)
19 Jul 2026 Ace of Spades — on the church bells of Weert
19 Jul 2026 Combichrist — Only Here For A Good Time (Official Video)
19 Jul 2026 Witch Club Satan — The Kids Will Kill Us (Official Video)
05 Jul 2026 Mork — Ferdamann (Official Video)
27 Jun 2026 Black Spikes — Imperatorė (Live at M.A.M.A. 2025)
21 Jun 2026 Bark — Full Show at Cinema, Aalst
21 Jun 2026 Khemmis — Khemmis (Full Album Stream)
10 May 2026 Draconian — In Somnolent Ruin
10 May 2026 Gojira at Hellfest 2019
03 May 2026 Kreator — Krushers of the World
03 May 2026 The Devil's Blood — River Of Gold, live at Maryland Deathfest X
18 Apr 2026 Yoth Iria — The Blind Eye of Antichrist (Official Video)
12 Apr 2026 At The Gates — The Dissonant Void (Official Animated Video)
12 Apr 2026 Modder — Live at Helldorado Festival 2025 (Full Set)
11 Apr 2026 Hellhammer on why most black metal drummers irritate him
05 Apr 2026 Kreator — Pleasure to Kill, Live at Wacken 2014
05 Apr 2026 Metallica - Monsters Of Rock, Moscow 1991
27 Oct 2025 Faith No More - Midlife Crisis (Live)
24 Oct 2025 RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR - Falcon
13 Oct 2025 My Dying Bride - Full Show Live at Wacken Open Air 2015
22 Sept 2025 IGORRR - DAEMONI
14 Sept 2025 Dolly Parton sings Duality (Slipknot)

Riff Posts (12)

05 Jul 2026 Since I've Been Loving You. The hardest slow blues in rock
27 Jun 2026 Nile, Execration Text. The closing lick and why exotic scales make Nile sound like nobody else.
10 May 2026 Darkthrone's Siberian Thaw — the riff a rusty fan couldn't resist.
18 Apr 2026 A jazz guitarist plays Master of Puppets and accidentally proves why the riff works
11 Apr 2026 15 metal riffs every beginner should learn first
05 Apr 2026 Why the opening riff of Symptom of the Universe still hits harder than anything released this year
05 Apr 2026 Unchained. The riff that made me buy my first cassette.
04 Sept 2025 Scorpions - Coast To Coast guitar solo lesson
22 Jul 2025 The Crossroads Guitar Duel. What it actually sounded like.
07 Oct 2023 Top 5 Modern Shred Guitarists
18 Feb 2023 10 Easy Metal Riffs (with Tabs)
24 Jun 2022 10 Iconic Drop D Riffs (with Tabs)

Opinion (17)

26 Jul 2026 Moonspell called it their new Irreligious. The scoreboard disagrees
22 Jun 2026 What is the forbidden riff?
10 May 2026 AC/DC at Oakland 1979. With Bon Scott, this is what a rock band looks like.
25 Apr 2026 UFO. The Band That Time Forgot.
09 Apr 2026 Support Acts Deserve Better Sound. Always.
06 Apr 2026 This Week in Metal: April 7-13, 1987
17 Dec 2025 7 Forgotten Metal Bands From the 1980s
13 Jul 2025 The Strange Case of Draugveil
31 May 2025 10 Rock Songs That Were BRUTALLY Banned
06 Aug 2023 Belgium's Metal Bands That Deserve Your Attention
05 Jul 2023 Heavy Metal and Aggression
18 Feb 2023 The Funny Metal Bands That Are Actually Good
16 Jan 2023 Tatiana Shmayluk: The Ginger in Jinjer
03 Dec 2022 Germany, the Land of Metal
20 Nov 2022 The Forbidden Riff. Every song you're not allowed to play in a guitar shop.
02 Nov 2022 Did Meshuggah Play at the Oscars? The Truth Behind the 'Unreleased Footage'
12 Jun 2022 The best hair metal bands of all time

Deep Dives (27)

26 Jul 2026 Angel Witch. The NWOBHM founder history keeps forgetting
26 Jul 2026 Dark Funeral. A live album instead of new riffs, and rightly so
26 Jul 2026 Fluisteraars. Black metal that sounds like Gelderland
26 Jul 2026 Paradise Lost. The album where gothic metal grew up
19 Jul 2026 Ponte Del Diavolo. Two bassists, one poison garden
19 Jul 2026 Emptiness. The riff that hung mid-bar for twelve years
05 Jul 2026 Walg. Six albums in five years and almost nobody noticed
22 Jun 2026 Bark. The Antwerp band that has been keeping the bad way alive for ten years.
22 Jun 2026 Graspop Metal Meeting. The Belgian festival that turned Dessel into a four-day metal city.
22 Jun 2026 Sigh. The Tokyo band that Euronymous signed to Deathlike Silence.
22 Jun 2026 Wacken Open Air. The German festival that wrote the European metal festival playbook.
21 Jun 2026 Mayhem. The Marseille tape from 2000, and the years of carnage that made it possible.
10 May 2026 Amenra. The Belgian post-metal band that turned a hardcore scene into a church
10 May 2026 Darkthrone. Pre-Historic Metal points back to Celtic Frost, Bathory, Hellhammer.
10 May 2026 Hellfest. The festival France built and the rest of Europe is still trying to catch up to
10 May 2026 Jinjer. The band Tatiana Shmayluk fronts is heavier than the viral clip
03 May 2026 Gnome. Antwerp's stoner trio plays better than they sing.
25 Apr 2026 Demon Spell. Italian occult heavy metal that stands at the door and knocks on Mercyful Fate's coffin.
18 Apr 2026 Crimson Glory. Twenty-six years of silence broken by Chasing the Hydra.
17 Apr 2026 Hypostasis. The Greek prog band that disappeared for eight years and came back swinging.
12 Apr 2026 Silencer. The Swedish duo that invented depressive suicidal black metal and then disappeared.
11 Apr 2026 Black Oak County. Misprint.
07 Apr 2026 Doodseskader. The Change Is Me.
06 Apr 2026 Cult of Luna. Somewhere Along the Highway.
05 Apr 2026 Vreid. The Skies Turn Black.

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