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With the announcement that Megadeth are calling time on their career, it's time to look back and assess one of the most important bands in the genre of metal.

Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from the metal underground. This issue features music from Neuroblade, Desmadre, Starlit Pyre, Effuse, First To Burn, and Clagarnaċ.

Sold out nearly a year in advance, the most successful edition of Bloodstock to date was a scene for change, as Omne returned to the hallowed ground of Catton Hall once more.

Musclassia's favourite festival came around once more, and put on one of its strongest editions to date.

A bittersweet end of the current location of Rockstadt Extreme Fest. Here's how the last edition to take place in Râșnov went down.

We here at Metal Storm pride ourselves in the metal that we live and breathe, and most importantly, write about. But there's a whole world out there aside from Satan-worshiping black metal and dragon-slaying power metal. Here's what we checked out this month.

Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from the metal underground. This issue features music from Rattlesnakes, Sixth Wonder, Burial Gift, Vuln, Violent Answer, and Reeking Slug.

Ozzy Osbourne was larger than life. He was larger than his genre, than his work, than anybody else. His absence creates a void that no one will ever fill. But he left behind a legacy that few artists in any medium could ever boast of, and we of Metal Storm's community put together some words to…

After some of their biggest editions yet, ArtMania is scaling back in 2025.

Summer 2025 was blockbuster season for gigs in London, with some of the biggest headline draws covered here.

We here at Metal Storm pride ourselves in the metal that we live and breathe, and most importantly, write about. But there's a whole world out there aside from Satan-worshiping black metal and dragon-slaying power metal. Here's what we checked out this month.

We regularly review full lengths, collaborations, sometimes even live albums. EPs and demos often get love in our Clandestine Cuts series. Heck, we even review a bunch of stuff that isn't metal. But when was the last time you saw a review of a split album? Exactly! We are here to make up for that!

A festival geared towards international rock and metal acts and of this particular size was bound to surface eventually to fill the niche that's been unoccupied since the previous guardians called it quits over 10 and over 15 years ago. The birthing of this one is not without controversy, though,…

Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from the metal underground. This issue features music from Crusader, Between Nothing, Chronepsis, Everybody Dies, Unhallowed Earth, and Branch Of Melas.

There is something oddly charming and quaint about municipally funded events. Relieved of the immediate pressure to turn a profit, they are free to challenge cultural conventions. Of course it's easier said than done and the result can be viewed in terms of various and somewhat questionable degrees…

It was probably something like eight to ten years ago that I had the need to cross over to Finland for a Halestorm gig. For one thing or another it was not to be at that particular time, and with all that's been happening since, the idea of such a gig kind of fell off the radar for me. Well, somewhat…

We here at Metal Storm pride ourselves in the metal that we live and breathe, and most importantly, write about. But there's a whole world out there aside from Satan-worshiping black metal and dragon-slaying power metal. Here's what we checked out this month.

Today marks my fourth year of membership in this Metal Storm community. Join me as I present what albums I've discovered in the past year.

A fresh face in the UK metal festival scene brought a heap of big names and underground sensations from the global black metal scene to British shores, and in doing so inspired musclassia to also make the long journey north to seaside Scarborough.

Clandestine Cuts are the best demos and EPs from the metal underground. This issue features music from Myth Carver, Pyrrhic Salvation, Thief’s Pardon, Orgo, Flagelo, and Nebiru.