For fans of Megadeth: what to watch, read & play next

A power-obsessed miner tears through a space colony — brutal animated sci-fi driven by dark, insatiable energy.

An on-the-ground document of LA's heavy metal scene, featuring Megadeth alongside the era's defining hard rock acts.

A legendary Japanese garage rock band vs. alien-driven zombies — chaotic, committed, gloriously absurd.

An evil glowing orb terrorises a young girl with dark fantasies of horror and excess — bold animated anthology from 1981.

Dethklok fulfils a prophecy in a finale that treats metal mythology with total, deadpan seriousness.

Two teenage misfits stake everything on metal as a path to identity — earnest and funny in equal measure.

An amateur metal band's twelve-year rehearsal finally meets a real stage — warm-hearted and loud.

Metallica in crisis, hiring a therapist — a raw, unflinching portrait of ego, grief, and survival inside metal's biggest machine.

Music is the light that fights back: monsters have silenced the world and only sound-wielders can push them back.

Children bonded in a void grow up to pilot machines against dimension-crossing monsters — relentlessly dark animation.

A volatile dark wizard is the kingdom's last line of defence against a God of Destruction — metal-themed fantasy anime.

A death-metal band so powerful the government sets out to destroy it — sharp satire wrapped in genuinely brutal comedic darkness.

An android enforcer and her investigator partner hunt a rebel faction in a sleek, action-heavy sci-fi world.

A mild-mannered singer's demonic stage persona spirals into comic chaos — dark metal identity played for maximum absurdity.

Battle-of-the-bands is life-or-death in a city where musical superstardom drives everything — colourful and relentlessly energetic.

A world where music has ceased to exist — a boy and a mysterious girl retrace the entire history of rock to restore it.

Blast zombies with a drum-mounted machine gun — a metal rhythm game where sound is literally the survival mechanic.

Endless waves, escalating power, loot and level-ups — smash through hordes and grow absurdly strong.

An action shooter built around terrain-deforming combat across a divided future America.

Exiled heroes fight without mercy to tear magic from a tyrant's grip — a beat-'em-up roguelite by Dotemu.

One soldier against a technologically superior fascist regime that has conquered 1960s Europe — brutal and unrelenting.

Customisable war machines fight across three simultaneous battlefield layers — orbit, surface, and underground.

Four factions in a high-octane demolition derby all fighting for a single wish granted by the villain Calypso.

A fan-made rhythm battle mod built on the underground DIY energy of the original Friday Night Funkin'.

Chronicles Black Sabbath's rise as the quintessential heavy metal band — essential reading on the genre's foundations.

An undead goth metal frontman in Paris whose newfound fame brings dangerous phantoms of his past to the surface.

Twin outsiders whose grim destiny is revealed when they play the latest metal album backwards.

Ageing mercenaries reunite for one last brutal quest — epic fantasy that treats band-loyalty as a life-or-death code.

Biological beasts vs. mechanical steel: a prince on the run and a girl disguised as a soldier navigate a world at war.

Sharp, contrarian rock criticism that dissects the mythology and absurdity of the music's founding era.

A memoir from one of rock's greatest guitarists — excess, survival, and sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll redefined.

A warrior discovers the wars fought in the name of faith run far deeper than any single battle — dense, unsparing epic fantasy.