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SEVEN DEADLY SONGS is up.
Seven new tracks. All killers. No skips.
Dive in 👇
#MetalLair #SevenDeadlySongs #NowPlaying #NewMetal

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November 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Come hang out at MetalLair.net where the metal force is strong. We’ve got plenty of heavy goodies for your metalhead brain. 🤘
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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New Review: One Last Day – Eyes Like Glass // Thoughts Like Fuel. Melodic metalcore with big hooks, sharp edges, and room to get even heavier.
Full write-up
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November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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A Rip in Time: Women in Metal
The pioneers. The rebels. The riff-slinging visionaries who reshaped heavy music.
Read the new feature →

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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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World Metal Weekly – Greece Edition 🇬🇷🔥
A Metal Lair original series.
Every week, a new kingdom rises

#WorldMetalWeekly #MetalLair
#GreekMetal #SeasonOfMist #rottingchrist #nightfall #blackswordthunderattack #kawir #1000mods #varathron #Astarte

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November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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SEVEN DEADLY SONGS is up.
Seven new tracks. All killers. No skips.
Dive in 👇
#MetalLair #SevenDeadlySongs #NowPlaying #NewMetal

metallair.net/seven-deadly...
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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New Metalhead Horoscope is live. Scorpio season = bolt cutters energy.
link: metallair.net/metalhead-ho...
Illustration of a zodiac wheel in gold around a grinning skull with glowing red eyes on a black space background — Metal Lair’s Metalhead Horoscopes branding.
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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New Metal Lair column:
women didn’t enter metal, they ripped the timeline open.
5 moments where one vocalist changed the entire scene architecture.

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A Rip in Time: Women in Metal Artwork. Black background with a vertical white tear of light, with the text “A Rip in Time” at top and “Women in Metal” at bottom.
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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King Diamond made horror sound beautiful.

Derek Gann just dropped a full profile on the man who changed how darkness is performed in metal.

This one is a torch.

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Black and white portrait of King Diamond in corpsepaint and top hat looking upward
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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New week. Seven new riffs to ruin your spine.

Denmark doom → UK goth → Armenian black metal → Boston slam.

Which track wrecks you first?

#sevendeadlysongs #MetalLair #bogwife #coldinberlin #drainband #dysentery #godark #ildaruni #stargazery
“Dark hooded skeletal figure with black wings playing a glowing neon blue electric guitar in a purple infernal landscape. Text at top reads ‘Metal Lair’s Seven Deadly Songs.’”
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Mallavora are turning anger into art.
We talked to them about disability, activism, & their debut album What If Better Never Comes?

full interview ↓
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#Mallavora #AltMetal #UKMetal #DisabilityRights #MetalLair
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Ronnie James Dio — the voice that forged metal myth into metal reality. Horns up forever. 🤘

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Ronnie James Dio pointing toward the camera with dramatic hand gestures in front of a painted sky backdrop.
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Brazil is erupting (again).
World Metal Weekly. Brazil Edition is live, blackened / death / crossover / doom / thrash.
all teeth.

link → metallair.net/world-metal-weekly-brazil

#WorldMetalWeekly #BrazilianMetal
Metal Lair World Metal Weekly backstage pass style badge with WMW logo.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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underground metal is kept alive by the sites that still listen first, not chase trend data.

I just rounded up 60 metal outlets (big + niche) that are still doing curation like it matters.

link: metallair.net/underground-...

#metal #undergroundmetal #musicjournalism #metalpress
Underground Metal Websites. A crowd at a metal show raising devil horns hand signs under stage lights
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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FEAST OF THE DAMNED 🎃
20 cursed pairings of metal, horror & sinful snacks — from Bathory to Ghost, Mortician to Sabbath.

#MetalLair #FeastOfTheDamned #MetalHalloween #seasonofmist #carachangren #hoodedmenace #HorrorAndMetal #ghost #robzombie #blacksabbath
Feast of the Damned. Vintage-style Halloween scene featuring a witch holding a red apple, Frankenstein, Dracula, and a mummy gathered around a candlelit table with a jack-o’-lantern, candy, cobwebs, and a spinning vinyl record player.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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If you like your metal heavy, emotional, and pitch-black — Dawn Fades just dropped a beast.

Kevin digs deep into their new album “III” in his latest review for Metal Lair. Absolutely worth your ears.

#DawnFades #MetalReviews #PostMetal #SupportIndependentMusic

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October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The stars are screaming in distortion this week.
Metal Lair’s Halloween Metalhead Horoscope is live
🔗 metallair.net/metalhead-ho...
#MetalheadHoroscope #MetalLair #HalloweenMetal #ScorpioSeason
Metalhead Horoscopes. Halloween edition cover of Metal Lair’s Metalhead Horoscopes featuring a witch flying past a full moon, a black scorpion, and a glowing jack-o-lantern.
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This weeks scopes are live for the week of October 19th - 25th. Hello Scorpio season
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Metalhead Horoscope metal-themed poster featuring a detailed scorpion under a full moon, surrounded by zodiac symbols, with the title “Metal Lair’s Metalhead Horoscopes” at the top.
October 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🔥 Seven Deadly Songs – Oct 17 🔥
This week’s heaviest hitters aren’t just riffs, they’re rituaks.

Feast on the filth here: metallair.net/seven-deadly... metallair.net
#SevenDeadlySongs #HeavyMetal #MetalLair #NowPlaying #MetalReleaseFriday #Metalheads #NewMetal
October 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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“Where Doom Meets Autumn: The Slow Death of the Year in Metal”

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#DoomMetal #OctoberVibes #BlackSabbath #Candlemass #Monolord #Pallbearer #MetalLair #HeavyMetal #AutumnMetal #SludgeMetal #StonerDoom
October 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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“Tell us your ‘I thought I was 18, my neck thought otherwise’ concert story.”

#MetalMeme #MetalLair #Moshpit #Headbanger #ConcertLife #Metalheads #HeavyMetal #ThrashMetal #AgingLikeFineRiffs
October 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🎧 Inside the Sound of Darkness
Exclusive interview with composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson on scoring Hulu’s Into the Void – Life, Death & Heavy Metal.

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#IntoTheVoid #HuluDoc #AndrewGordonMacpherson #MetalLair #HeavyMetal #MetalDocumentary
“Promotional poster for Metal Lair’s exclusive interview with composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson about scoring Hulu’s Into the Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal. The top features red and white text reading ‘Inside the Sound of Darkness,’ while below, Macpherson sits in a dim studio surrounded by instruments. At the bottom are Metal Lair and Hulu logos, vintage metal cassette tapes, and photos of musicians connected by red thread.”
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The crypt opens again.
Finnish death-doom masters Hooded Menace drop Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration, a towering blend of melody and menace.

Kevin McSweeney’s full review now live on Metal Lair.

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#HoodedMenace #DeathDoom #MetalLair #AlbumReview #SeasonOfMist
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Gen Z didn’t just join metal — they broke it, rebuilt it, and added memes + breakdowns. 🤘
From Sleep Token to Electric Callboy, here are the 23 bands mutating heavy music:
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#MetalLair #GenZMetal
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🕯️ On this day in 1999, Type O Negative dropped World Coming Down, the ultimate bad-day soundtrack. Doom, grief, addiction and twisted humor.

Which track still wrecks you the most?

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#TypeONegative #WorldComingDown #PeterSteele #MetalHistory #albumanniversary
September 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM