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The Taiwan Metal Scene: Heavy Bands You Should Know
Taiwan built one of Asia's most distinctive metal scenes by welding black metal to the erhu and singing its own history back at it. Start with Chthonic, then go deeper — here are the heavy bands worth knowing.
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Beyond "Bodies": How Drowning Pool Refused to Stay Down
One riff made them famous. Five singers, a tragedy, and an unbreakable core trio made Drowning Pool one of nu-metal's great survival stories.
All That Remains Should Have Broken Up Years Ago. They Didn't.
A founder's unsolved death, a decade of lineup churn, and one original member left standing. Somehow All That Remains just dropped their tenth album.
Bands Like Fleshwater: 12 Shoegaze & Alt-Metal Picks
Fleshwater turned '90s alt-rock haze and sudden heaviness into a cult favorite. Here are 12 bands for fans of that beautiful, bruising sound.
Bands Like Poppy: 12 Genre-Bending Heavy Artists
Poppy swings from bubblegum pop to punishing metal and dares you to keep up. Here are 12 genre-fluid artists for fans who love that whiplash.
Bands Like Vended: 12 Nu-Metalcore & Heavy Bands to Watch
Born from Slipknot's bloodline, Vended fuse nu-metal groove with modern metalcore rage. Here are 12 bands for fans of that lineage.
Bands Like Thornhill: 12 Atmospheric Metalcore Bands to Get Lost In
Thornhill made velvet-and-violence metalcore an art form. Here are 12 bands for fans of that Deftones-soaked, atmospheric heaviness.
Bands Like Motionless in White: 11 Gothic & Industrial Metalcore Picks
Corpse paint, horror-movie hooks, and industrial weight. Here are 11 bands for fans of Motionless in White's theatrical dark side.
Bands Like Knocked Loose: 12 Heavy Hardcore Bands to Get Into the Pit For
Knocked Loose dragged metallic hardcore onto festival main stages without softening a thing. Here are 12 bands — beatdown, metallic, and crossover — for when you need to break something.
Bands Like Lorna Shore: 12 Deathcore Titans to Play Next
Will Ramos made the whole world care about deathcore again. Here are 12 bands — symphonic, blackened, and brutal — for when you need more of that cinematic chaos.
Bands Like Bad Omens: 12 Artists for the Atmospheric-Metalcore Obsessed
The Death of Peace of Mind rewrote the rules for how big a metalcore band could get. Here are 12 artists for when you need more of those pop-heavy, atmosphere-soaked hooks.
Bands Like Sleep Token: 12 Artists to Fill the Void
Sleep Token cracked heavy music open by refusing to pick a genre. Here are 12 bands — big names and buried gems — for when Even in Arcadia isn't enough.
Bands Like Spiritbox: 12 Artists for the Djent-and-Atmosphere Crowd
Spiritbox turned atmospheric, djent-heavy metalcore into a main-stage sound. Here are 12 bands — melodic, crushing, and cinematic — to fill the gap between records.
Aftershock 2026 Survival Guide: What to Know Before Sacramento
Your first Aftershock? Here's the stuff nobody tells you before Sacramento — that camping is new this year and lives at Cal Expo instead of the park, the no-on-site-parking reality that catches drivers out, the bag rule that gets people turned away at the gate, the Wednesday pre-party campers get and day-ticket holders don't, and how to plan a weekend across five stages and 140-plus bands without missing the ones you came for.
Louder Than Life 2026 Survival Guide: What to Know Before Louisville
Your first Louder Than Life? Here's the stuff nobody tells you before Louisville — the Wednesday campgrounds open, the bag rule that gets people turned away at the metal detectors, the no-re-entry trap, which parking lot is actually closest, and how to plan a weekend across seven stages and ~200 bands without missing the ones you came for.
The Best Heavy & Rock Festivals of 2026
Five festivals carry the heavy calendar in 2026: the four-stop Danny Wimmer circuit plus the big independent in a Wisconsin field. Two are already in the books, three are still ahead of you. Here's what each one actually is, who's headlining, and which is worth your money.
Sonic Temple 2026 Recap: Best Sets (Fan-Voted)
Sonic Temple 2026 packed a record crowd into Columbus for four days across five stages. Here are the sets that actually landed — the album-anniversary spectacle, the two closers people are still arguing about, and the heavy undercard names most recaps skip.
Aftershock 2026: Bands You Can't Miss (Fan-Voted)
The bands worth planning your four days around at Aftershock 2026 in Sacramento — the headliners you bought the ticket for, the reunion and anniversary sets you genuinely won't get again, and the heavier early-slot names most festival guides leave off.
Louder Than Life 2026: Bands You Can't Miss (Fan-Voted)
The bands worth planning your weekend around at Louder Than Life 2026 in Louisville — the headliners everyone's there for, two rare one-offs you won't get again, and the heavier early-slot names most guides skip.
Rock Fest 2026 Survival Guide: A First-Timer's Guide to Cadott
Your first Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin? Here's what nobody tells you before you go — camping tiers decoded, the parking-pass trap, generator quiet hours, what gets you stopped at the gate, and how to plan a weekend across 50-odd bands without missing the ones you came for.
Louder Than Life vs Aftershock: Which Fall Rock Festival Is Right for You?
wo of fall's biggest rock festivals share a huge slice of the same bill — same Tool, same My Chemical Romance, same Limp Bizkit. So the real choice comes down to the exclusives, the geography, and the size. Here's how Louder Than Life and Aftershock 2026 actually stack up.
What Is Nu Metal? The Rise, Fall, and Return of Metal's Most Hated Genre
Nu metal was the biggest thing in heavy music, then the most mocked, and now it's back. Here's where the down-tuned, hip-hop-fed, scream-and-sing sound actually came from, why the backlash hit so hard, and the new bands dragging it into 2026.
What Is Metalcore? The History of Metal's Most Divisive Genre
Metalcore is the sound of hardcore punk colliding with heavy metal — screamed verses, sung choruses, and the breakdown that empties a room into the pit. Here's where it came from, how it actually sounds, and how to tell it apart from deathcore and post-hardcore.
Rock Fest 2026: 10 Bands You Can't Miss
The 10 bands worth planning your weekend around at Rock Fest 2026 in Cadott, Wisconsin — the headliners everyone's there for, two acts buzzing on The Band Index right now, and the underground names worth showing up early for.