Women in metal
Some issues crop up again and again because they are unresolved. Others crop up because they are stupid, and therefore attract idiots, who want to make drama out of them. Each year, Revolver publishes...
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New York Times on “the best voices in heavy metal”
In the 1990s, mainstream media pretty much ignored heavy metal except to report on the hair bands. The fear of radicals of an unknown quantity scared them away. Then, gradually, media began to find...
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Death metal as art in the media
As metal continues to grow in popularity, outsiders to the genre find it more appealing. They see it as an unknown region, or an exotic culture, and in comparison their lives seem drab. What is it that...
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Society views heavy metal as a symbol
If you’ve suffered through even a few years of big media, you’re probably aware how it functions through symbols. Where literature might describe something, big media trots out a handy symbol that...
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Graveland works around mass media, opens own store
Despite being one of the premiere third wave black metal bands, Graveland have long been excluded from mainstream media and most distros as much for their esoteric music as their rumored controversial...
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Mainstream media gets skittish about headbanging again
Those who have followed heavy metal in the news know that we seem like an odd crowd to the mainstream journalists who write about us. This sometimes takes on a weird dimension where they offer us...
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