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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

A first-person Fermented Metal field report from Lagunitas Brewing Company's June 6, 2026 Trooper West Coast IPA release party in Petaluma, featuring Iron Maiden fandom, brewery-tour details, Maiden United, and an air-guitar contest.

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.