Black metal and power metal held their own as well with some landmark titles in 2000. It was, sadly, the year Pantera delivered their final album as well — it's quite underrated! See what metal ...

A black moon is a rare occurrence. The next Black Moon will occur on Aug. 23, 2025. This is considered a Black Moon under the definition of the third new moon in a season of four new moons.

Before there was a metal card at virtually every price point, there was the invitation-only American Express Centurion Card (aka the "Amex Black Card"), the longest-lived metal card since its ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. There’s something satisfying about the heft and feel of a metal credit card. Whether it’s the cachet that comes with owning one ...

A genre that changed the world of metal forever, nu-metal had a firm 10-year grasp on music from around 1994 until 2004, and essentially defined a large chunk of pop-culture. Defining what bands ...

Kati Rán put together an impressive crew for this voyage, with black metal legend Gaahl, Mitch Harris of Napalm Death and members of Heilung, Sígur Rós and more taking turns on the oars. But this was ...

Black rice is that rare trifecta of delicious, healthy, and aesthetically pleasing. This dark-colored rice, which is a deep purple-black, has alternate names including purple rice, forbidden rice ...

Fans of the Sonic games will immediately recognize this as Metal Sonic - one of Sonic's lesser-known foes, and a character who could serve as the main foe in the recently-announced Sonic the ...

Black salt, also known as kala namak or Himalayan black salt, is found in India. It comes from the salt mines of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and other Himalayan locations. Black salt was ...

I’ve always passed detox trends off as phony wellness fads. When I started to hear about the dangers of heavy metal toxicity, my feelings began to change. I was first introduced to the concept ...

A punishingly hateful mixture of sludge, noise and death metal, SHAME is less an album than an endurance test for listeners who's souls aren't already black as tar. Abyssal and unrelenting, each track ...

In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer, the genre-blending icon revealed the one thing he'd change about heavy metal: its obsession with subgenres. "I'd get rid of all the categories they've ...