Xenobiotic – Mordrake

To the ears of this humble fan and writer, there is just something more interesting about progressive heavy bands, or even bands that inject a little pr... Read On

The Ten Most Metal Skateboarders

Ten of the sickest skaters in the world of metal... Read On

Kreator’s Pleasure To Kill: the brutal 80s masterpiece that put Euro thrash on the map

How Germany’s most vicious thrash metal band took on the Big Four – and almost won... Read On

How the 90s nearly saw the end of extreme metal

Death and thrash metal stormed into the 90s in rude and bloody health. So why did that decade see both scenes nearly come off their rails?... Read On

Skate or die! How skate-punk took over the world

The perfect soundtrack to limb-threatening aerial stunts, skate-punk was thrash metal’s snotty younger brother. Here's the story of what happened when pun... Read On

Extreme metal news: This week’s top stories from the underground

Subterranea in short: All the latest news from the worlds of death metal, black metal, sludge, doom, stoner, grindcore, post metal, occult rock and more... Read On

Bring The Noise: How Rage Against The Machine Changed The World

Uncompromising, full of anger and forever engaged as much as they were enraged. Meet the band who caused anarchy in the USA and left an indelible mark on music:... Read On

Here are the 10 biggest news stories of the week

It’s been yet another gigantic week in the world of rock, metal and prog – here are the stories that hit the headlines... Read On

Jump and Haze play London double-header in March

Prog veterans Jump and Haze hit Islington's Hope & Anchor in March... Read On

Metal Insider’s Top 20 Questions from Ozzy Osbourne’s Reddit AMA

    Ozzy Osbourne recently set up a Reddit AMA as he let his fans ask him just about anything from socks, his perfect breakfast, Aliens, to his new so... Read On