Extreme Metal
Everything published on Viyolens under Extreme Metal — reviews, buying advice and how-tos written for players and producers in the UK.
Essential Grindcore Albums Explained
There's no official grindcore canon. Here's what actually earns a place in the conversation, and why.
The Best Deathcore Songs Right Now
The most effective deathcore tracks use contrast as their primary tool — between speed and weight, chaos and groove. These are the songs that do it best.
A Beginner's Guide to Deathcore
Deathcore combines death metal's blast beats and extreme vocals with the breakdown-centred architecture of hardcore and metalcore. Here's what that actually means — and why it works.
Deathcore Subgenres, Explained
Deathcore has developed a rich set of variants over two decades — from technical complexity to symphonic scale to blackened atmosphere. Here's how they differ and where they come from.
The Best Deathcore Artists to Know
These are the artists who built deathcore and those currently defining it — from the MySpace-era bands who established the template to the acts pushing it in new directions today.
The Best Grindcore Artists to Know
A handful of names keep recurring in any serious grindcore conversation. Here's what each one actually contributed.
A Beginner's Guide to Death Metal
It looks impenetrable from the outside, but give it the right six records and this genre clicks faster than you'd think.
The Best Grindcore Songs Right Now
Length has almost nothing to do with it. Here's what actually makes a grindcore track essential.
The History of Deathcore
Deathcore didn't arrive fully formed — it was built over a decade from death metal and hardcore traditions by bands working outside the mainstream and largely on their own terms.
A Beginner's Guide to Black Metal
Corpse paint, blast beats and a genuinely tangled history: here's what actually defines black metal, and how it splintered into everything it is today.
Death Metal Subgenres, Explained
One genre, eight genuinely different sounds. A no-nonsense map of every death metal branch and where to start with each one.
The Best Death Metal Artists to Know
Not an alphabetical list — the death metal names grouped by what each one actually did for the sound, from the founders to the melodic outliers.
Essential Death Metal Albums Explained
A tightly packed canon: the death metal albums that actually matter, in the order they happened, and why each one still holds up.
The History of Black Metal
From a Venom album title to a small, notorious Norwegian scene and on into a truly global genre, here's how black metal actually unfolded.
The Best Death Metal Songs Right Now
Not a chart list — the death metal tracks that have earned genuine, lasting staying power, whatever decade you're listening in.
A Beginner's Guide to Grindcore
Blast beats, seconds-long songs and a reputation for chaos — here's what grindcore actually is, and where a newcomer should start.
Deathcore for Newcomers: Where to Start
The genre rewards sequence: start with the tracks that make the breakdown mechanism clear, then follow the path outward. Here's how to approach deathcore as a newcomer.
The History of Death Metal
A handful of bands, a few unglamorous cities and about a decade — that's really all it took to build an entire genre from scratch.
Grindcore Subgenres, Explained
Grindcore splintered early. Here's what deathgrind, goregrind, powerviolence and the rest actually mean.
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Black Metal
Black metal is an extreme metal style built on speed, harsh vocals, dense guitars and dark atmosphere.
Death Metal
Discover death metal equipment built for fast, heavy and articulate performances, from rehearsal to recording.
Deathcore
Deathcore fuses death metal brutality with breakdown-heavy metalcore for a fast, technical and crushing sound.
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme, ultra-fast blend of punk and metal. It is raw, abrasive and rooted in DIY underground culture.
