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
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25 Essential Thrash Albums
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15 Essential Grunge Albums
From Alice in Chains to Temple of the Dog
Hail to the Kings: M. Shadows Interviews Hetfield and Ulrich
Avenged Sevenfold singer gains audience with Metallica's founding duo in classic story
How Lamb of God Came Back After Randy Blythe's Arrest and Imprisonment
From Prague's Pankrác Prison to LOG's 'VII: Sturm und Drang'
Florida Death Metal's Gory Rise, Groundbreaking Reign: The Definitive Oral History
Deicide, Death, Morbid Angel and more tell the story of one of heavy music's most game-changing movements
Injuries, Pressure, Ciphers: Inside Alice in Chains' 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here'
How Seattle rock giants proved the comeback was real with one of their heaviest records