Folk metal kind of happened and that was kind of it and perfect right from the start.
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Folk metal kind of happened and that was kind of it and perfect right from the start.
They did it all for the nookie.
It was never really a thing to properly speak of, but it was definitely a thing.
Melodic death metal was both counterintuitive and inevitable.
Not your friendly neighborhood metalheads
Prog nerds were always part of the metal scene even if they didn't invent it.
I had to talk about it.
Get in, losers: today we're declaring war to our eardrums.
Doomers are the abusive older brothers of emo bois. They’re also awesome.
You’ve read histories of black metal before, but here’s the nerdier version.
What if I told you boogeyman music was just the beginning for boogeymen?
Metal as a musical genre started in 1970, but metal as a way of life and a philosophy started right there.
If all ofther metal genres have Ozzy Osbourne for grandfather, power metal’s resident elder is Ronnie James Dio.
The Sunset Strip is a strange blip in metal history, but it’s not quite unconnected.
In the beginning, there was Lemmy. For real, this time.
NWOBHM is another thing that kind of happen, but not really.
An apocryphal crash course in Black Sabbath and why they’re so foundational to metal history.
