Black Metal History
Into the band comes Teloch, a Norwegian guitarist who played in several other black metal bands and was a touring guitarist with Gorgoroth (another...
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Pytten has had an enormous amount to do with how the Norwegian black metal sound was represented.
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The gulf between Mayhem's seminal Deathcrush EP in 1987 and their first proper full length in 1994 was an industrious but often low key...
Into the band comes Teloch, a Norwegian guitarist who played in several other black metal bands and was a touring guitarist with Gorgoroth (another...
ach person has his or her own way of delving into an art form. For me, books and documentaries have a colorizing effect on...
Happy February, or as we've christened it for the last few years… Happy Black Metal History Month. All month, we will celebrate metal's most...
The following post is a part of Black Metal History Month, our monthlong celebration of all things black metal. Check out all of our...
Today is the last day of February concluding another kvlt Black Metal History Month.
When people talk about U.S. black metal, the focus is usually on the Brooklyn, Pacific Northwest, and California scenes. But if you dig a...
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Since 1982, Thomas Gabriel Fischer (AKA Thomas Gabriel "Warrior") has been one of the guiding forces behind extreme metal. With the formation of Hellhammer...
Those haircuts... they can't possibly be serious, can they? The two gentlemen in the above photo aren't posing for a CKNY ad campaign. They...
There is music that is meant to comfort us, music meant to disturb us, and music meant to impale our senses with the cold...
Alright, let's be real about this- being a musician is a rough way of life these days. And for a style as specialized and...
Another masterstroke release from Bindrune Recordings, Germany's Waldgeflüster return with an album three years in the making. Called Meine Fesseln, one man mastermind Winterherz...
In a genre as insular and niche as black metal is, it stands to reason that the eschewing of live performance and interviews in favor...
Tracing the origins of black metal is less like searching for a needle in a haystack and more like wondering through a graveyard at...
First thing's first: Last week's winner! Congratulations to Immortally Enslaved who had the best zinger: "Umm, no, that's OK King… I'm perfectly capable of...
Say, remember those really cool Minimalist Black Metal Posters we posted a few weeks back? A lot of you were asking if you could...
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By 2002, True Norwegian Black Metal had become a shadow of its former self; many of the subgenre's powerhouse bands had either disbanded or...
Brooklyn, New York's Yellow Eyes are relatively new to the USBM game having just released their debut album in 2012. Despite the band's relative...
Among the most underground black metal units the band Incurus is one that remains really, well, underground. VJS’ one-man fronted abrasive black metal assault...
Gorgoroth. That’s it. That’s all you really need right? You know black metal, right? Has there ever been a single shred of doubt about...
If you want to know the answer to last time's Guessing Game click here. We're back for another round! The game is simple. Look at...
Celtic Frost (along with Hellhammer) could really go on any essential listening list for extreme metal. They've been so influential to Thrash, Death, and...
