Hopslaughter is a limited-release collaboration beer between Minneapolis death metal band Nothingness and 56 Brewing, poured to celebrate the band's third full-length album, Godslaughter. It debuted at a release party in 56 Brewing's Barrel Room on Friday, October 2, 2026

Three decades of festivals, pubs and graveside detours have turned one Norwegian Iron Maiden fan into the metal world's most obsessive travel agent. We talked to Metal Travels founder Runar Pettersen about tracking down album-cover locations, dodging fake "metal bars" and the one Motörhead pilgrimage we both still owe ourselves.

TRIVAN could have vanished for months and returned with a finished record. Instead, the Zagreb black metal outfit is building Eternal Shore single by single, in full view of everyone listening — grief, discipline, and one anti-Christmas song at a time.

Iron Maiden's Eddie's Dive Bar pop-up crossed the Atlantic for the first time this September, landing at Beer Authority in Hell's Kitchen with a new Lagunitas-brewed Trooper West Coast IPA and the brand's first-ever paid "Beer Roadie."

Munich may be internationally defined by beer halls, brass bands and Oktoberfest, but several blocks north of the historic center there is another side of the city’s drinking culture—one built around distorted guitars rather than oompah music.

Munich never built a scene to rival the Ruhr Valley's, but a basement studio, a handful of homegrown bands, and a run of festivals and arena shows gave the city an outsized role in metal history — with a packed fall 2026 calendar still to come.

There are Iron Maiden podcasts devoted to news, album rankings, setlists and exhaustive musical analysis. Iron Maiden Pub Quiz does all of those things—at least occasionally...

Beer of the week: A new Mastodon beer Hazy IPA based on the song "Poisonous Weapons" the thier 9th album " Marrow Deep".

Prima Materia, Kings Beneath, Theya and Marrower didn't simply give Redwood City four metal bands. They demonstrated four very different answers to the same basic question: just how heavy can heavy become?

There are beer names that happen to sound metal, and then there are beers whose heavy-metal intentions are almost impossible to misunderstand. Dundee, Scotland’s Holy Goat Brewing has unveiled Rainbow in the Dark, a new 6.66% ABV release whose title points directly toward one of Ronnie James Dio’s most enduring songs. Holy Goat teased the beer publicly on August 29, 2026, pairing the unmistakable title with an equally unmistakable alcohol content: 6.66 percent. For a brewery

Space Vacation, Tower Hill, Adamantis and Hands of Goro brought four different interpretations of old-school heavy metal to an unlikely Peninsula stronghold on Tuesday, August 18. That night ,in downtown Redwood City, the distance between the Bay Area, the Canadian Prairies and Boston suddenly became very small...

How does an American spend the Fourth of July in 2026, the 250th anniversary of the country's founding? Not with the usual hollow celebration via flag-waving, dog terrorizing explosions, and gluttonous consumption of food, but with the freedom to ignore it completely and go drink some damn good beer inside a decommissioned prison. That was the plan on Saturday, July 4th, one day after I'd spent a night working through The Zeppelin Bar and Left Hand Path downstairs, where I

The Black Heart, The Devonshire Arms, Werewolf Beer, and The Underground form a compact Camden circuit where visitors can move from locally brewed beer to a metal pub, an upstairs gig room and, finally, a full-volume Sunday-night show.

On Tuesday, July 7, 2026, those who had signed up and made the trek to London’s legendary Cart & Horses were presented with a combination that, on paper, sounds almost deliberately contradictory: yoga, heavy metal and beer. In this context, it made considerable sense.

Copenhagen has no shortage of great beer or heavy music—but sometimes the best stories only appear when you walk through the right door.

And, for one weekend in Paris, Eddie didn't just rule the stage. He had his own bar.

A walking tour of Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö: the Disgusting Food Museum, Science Fiction Bokhandeln, and Arsenik Bistro, in order down the same street.

Lina Vaštakaitė of Phrenetix playing at Kilkim Zaibu 2026

Hidden beneath the streets of Gdańsk's historic center, Labeerynt combines Polish craft beer, shadowy cellar-bar atmosphere and a rock-and-metal sensibility that feels refreshingly unpolished.

A late-night interview with Ūkanose guitarist Linas Petrauskas in Kaunas — the band's formation in Vilnius, the folk-metal balance behind Šiaurum Vėjum, the record heat of Kilkim Žaibu 2026, and the mead he brings on tour.

Daniele Santori — metalhead, vocalist, and winemaker — has built a winery in Marche, Italy that screams Heavy Metal. From his band The Dogma to his family's Collemara estate, the story of Heavy Metal Winery runs deeper than the label.

Iron Maiden's June 22, 2026 filmed concert at La Défense Arena was upended by a city-wide power outage mid-set. A full recap of the night — including the blackout, the recovery, the setlist, and what was being poured at Eddie's Dive Bar and venue concessions.

Florence isn't the first city that comes to mind for heavy metal, but Overkill Birreria — seven years running, madonnara murals on the walls, German lager on tap — is making a genuine case.

Forbidden Comes Home: A Generational Bay Area Bill at the Great American Music Hall

Sepultura's Celebrating Life Through Death farewell tour rolls into Berkeley with Exodus, Biohazard, and Tribal Gaze. A first-person live report from the UC Theatre, May 28, 2026.

Eighteen months in, Doom — the black-brick metal bar on the same Callowhill block as Franklin Music Hall — has become the closest thing Philadelphia has to a permanent address for its metal community. Inside the cathedral on 7th Street: founders Justin Holden and Will Yip, Chef Ian Hunter's mapo chili dog, the Doom Me cocktail, the revived Split Thy Skull barleywine fest, the Miss American Vampire pageant, and the Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2026 home-base partnership.

An afternoon at Ghost Town's Beer Garden in Laurel — a Fermented Metal field report from 3506 MacArthur Blvd.

The inside story on Motörhead's first official beer — Bastards Lager, Festival, brewed by family-run Krönleins Bryggeri in Halmstad and licensed through Brands For Fans.

Heavy Metal, Argentinian steaks, and beer...

Heavy metal’s decade-long booze boom produced beloved brands, quiet failures, and a blueprint for what craft collaboration can actually look like. Where are we at today?