Earlier this year, I wrote about the wave of dubstep metal that is ruining everything. That might have led some readers to believe that I’m fundamentally against the idea of mixing synthesizers and ...

“You can’t play heavy metal with synthesizers,” Bruce Dickinson told a Polish fan on film in the mid-‘80s. It wasn’t long before he’d have to eat those confident, brash words, when Iron Maiden entered ...

Lead singer Daniel Estrin reveals how a group of Perth students obsessed with melodic metal have made it to a Eurovision semi-final to be watched by millions “Synth-metal” is the short name for the ...

It doesn’t matter who synth metal band Element a440 is playing with. It could be a punk band, a DJ, or death metal group. The outfit’s only concern? To put on a theatrically, entertaining show, ...

Indie synth metal rockers Voyager are the first Australian band chosen to take on Eurovision. But this is why it could be our last contender. After axing this year’s Australia Decides contest to ...

Daft Punk shocked the world last month by announcing they’d be calling it quits. For many metal fans, Daft Punk were one of those electronic acts, much like The Prodigy, who bridged the gap between ...

Perth's synth-metal band Voyager is set for stardom as they prepare to play in one of the greatest shows on Earth. The boys have been named Australia's entrant in the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, ...

The stereotype of black-metal musicians as murderous, church-burning, white-­supremacist pagans in corpsepaint was out of date ten years ago—by now the style has worked its way into almost every ...

It seems like metal is intermingling with more musical genres than ever these days. Decades removed from rap metal's peak, new metal combinations still appear, notably in the recent surge of trap ...