If you're a metalhead, a punk or some other sorta fan of dark, heavy, outsider music and subculture, summer can be a bummer — black clothes are hot, tattoos get faded by the sun, and sweat makes corpse paint and eyeliner run. But don't let the dog days get you down: Slather on some SPF 666, hydrate like a motherfucker and channel your inner beach goth with these hard-hitting feel-good (and, in some cases, very feel-bad) hits of the summer, courtesy of the Deftones, Danzig, Type O, the Ramones, QOTSA and more.
Feel Good Hits of My Own Dirty Black Summer: 20 Songs for Dog Days
Channel your inner beach goth with our summertime playlist
Slipknot's '.5: The Gray Chapter': How Death, Trauma Shaped Comeback LP
Corey Taylor: "This album is about making peace with the loss that we've suffered"
Drugs, Death, Chaos, Contradiction: Inside Dillinger's 'One of Us Is the Killer'
How Greg Puciato and Ben Weinman's complex relationship has shaped one of heavy music's most insane bands
Killswitch Engage: Inside Jesse Leach's Return, Making of 'Disarm the Descent'
Leach: "Being in Killswitch today is worlds apart from what it was 10 years ago"
Pantera Look Back on 'Reinventing the Steel,' Breakup and Beyond
Phil, Rex and Vinnie shared stories from Texas firebrands' final years in classic interview
Slipknot's '.5: The Gray Chapter': How Death, Trauma Shaped Comeback LP
Corey Taylor: "This album is about making peace with the loss that we've suffered"
Drugs, Death, Chaos, Contradiction: Inside Dillinger's 'One of Us Is the Killer'
How Greg Puciato and Ben Weinman's complex relationship has shaped one of heavy music's most insane bands
Killswitch Engage: Inside Jesse Leach's Return, Making of 'Disarm the Descent'
Leach: "Being in Killswitch today is worlds apart from what it was 10 years ago"
Pantera Look Back on 'Reinventing the Steel,' Breakup and Beyond
Phil, Rex and Vinnie shared stories from Texas firebrands' final years in classic interview