40 years ago, Metallica set new standards for everyone in their wake and vicinity. Here's how.

It's been 4+ years of Global Metal Blog now. We passed 10.000+ visitors per month in 2025. I thank all those of you who keep coming back to indulge in my writings about metal, hard rock, and perhaps not least, their foul antitheses.

Welcome back, dear readers!

If you don't know what to make of that opening line, I'm referring to my recently posted yearly album Top 10, which I had to cut in half this year. This, then, is the second half. Because it's never just a Top 10; it's more like an overview of all the LPs...

Happy New Year, dear readers! Once again probably too late for some of you to even consider the term appropriate any longer. But as y'all should've noticed by now, I'm notoriously behind all other album reviewers in the world, and I can't be bothered to justify or even explain anything any longer. (Besides, exactly WHEN is that alleged cut-off date...

As I said concluding my Top 10 album list for 2024, there'd be a charity section on GMB this year. Seeing as how I'm a man of my word and all, I've finally managed to put it up. More charities will be added as I learn about them. And if there's one that's especially important to you, feel free to drop me a line and a link at ...

A lot of words for an occasion where words are futile

A long-underway negation of a long-overwrought attempt at a genre term

Alright, we're back from Egypt, and it's time for the yearly Top 10. In 2023, there was a certain pattern of the artists often being +50 years of age. And while the same applies in 2024 (like several years before, really), a considerable portion of the best releases from 2024 are solo albums.

"I shall return from out of the fire"

Happy New Year way too late yadda yadda yadda SO ANYWAY…

Hard rock has lost an irreplaceable songwriter

So, I got an email from a reader who, apart from being a metalhead, is also a board game developer. And his name's even Andy. So being somewhat of an experienced board game geek myself, I just gotta make some noise for his upcoming project: A metal-inspired fantasy board game!

Every respectable metal website has this list

For those of you who are interested in this whole digital nomad lifestyle of mine, and/or in traveling altogether, my buddy Nico Estinta has been so kind as to feature yours truly in his podcast.

Alright, people. First of all, allow me to most likely be the FINAL guy this season to wish you all a happy new year. Hope y'all got your party on, and I hope 2023 will make you happy, bring you fortune, get you laid, whatever you wish for. As long as everyone's cool with it. And also if someone's just being bitchy about it....

This is not an offensive blog post

Warning: Entering 'bitter old asshole' mode

Even I, who make a point of not following the news, have long become aware of the fact that Russian troops have viciously attacked Ukraine, destroying entire areas, and killing and raping civilians.

When going to metal shows in Denmark, something I've sadly realized over and over again is how surprisingly popular it's become for people to stand around and talk during concerts.

This time around, I'm dealing with a topic that's as closely related to metal as it's rarely discussed

Is it possible that metal is arguably a bad genre??

One of the classic matters in metal culture theory is, popularly speaking, "Where are all the ladies at?" Might as well rant about it sooner than later.

The world's biggest heavy metal journalist and author has left us too soon

What exactly IS this thing called heavy metal? I'm not answering it in detail here, but that doesn't stop me from ranting about it.