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Decades after its rise, heavy metal has found its place in mainstream music, but it didn’t come without a fight.

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Victor LaValle, with co-showrunner Chris Cantwell, adapts his novel about a New York City asylum that may be harboring the Devil in this third season of the anthology franchise.

Across distant systems and fractured realities, new forces begin to take shape. This issue of Heavy Metal brings together stories driven by conflict, transformation, and discovery. At the center of it ...

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When a novel is popular enough, it often inspires other creatives to adapt the book into a movie or a TV series… or a metalcore band. It’s not entirely uncommon for heavy bands to choose a name from ...