The allure of heavy metal reaches far and wide — nowadays, when major bands launch what is billed as a “world tour,” it truly is. However, one of the last continents to fall under metal’s ...

Two years after CNN first reported on Botswana’s vibrant heavy metal scene, we catch up with the country’s leather-clad kings of metal.

Africa has long been an important site for innovations in metallurgy, the science and technology of making and refining metals, for ritual, social and economic uses.

“Black Black Metal” is a documentary to explores an emerging South African rock scene in Soweto that challenges the long-lived cultural stereotypes of rock music.

Metal Orizon. Wrust. Demorogoth Satanum. You probably haven't heard of these names, but they're just some of the many African heavy metal bands featured in Edward Banchs' new book, Scream for Me ...

Geo·dissonance: the metal movement is proliferating to all corners of the globe. In its relentless display of vitriolic truths and the ugliest questions of existence, we can hear the resounding ...

Although the heavy metal music genre is still perceived as a White man’s (muzungu) thing in Africa, it is slowly gaining popularity, with several bands and labels cropping up around the continent.

Two years after CNN first reported on Botswana’s vibrant heavy metal scene, we catch up with the country’s leather-clad kings of metal.

How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in ...