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Top 10 Truly Evil Atmospheric Black Metal Bands

Are you tired of modern, trend-chasing black metal bands that all sound like Burzum or Darkthrone clones? You're not alone. Many metalheads are sick and tired of the modern "black metalcore" sound of every other interchangeable, unoriginal, modern blac...

New Fenriz Interview: "Darkthrones Still Lives in the 80s!"

When people are asked "what is the old school black metal band that has done the best to survive the post-90s fame", they almost always answer Darkthrone. And for good reason. Sure, there are a few other bands. Like, Burzum's recent releases do have a ...

Abbath: "When I See the Fullmoon I Get Possessed" (Immortal Interview)

Immortal is one band that likes to be edgy. In every interview they give, they always try to say something provocative - see when Abbath claimed that Immortal was inspired by "Euronymous and Elvis Presley" (something he reiterates later on). Or, more r...

The Most "Kvlt" Black Metal Album... Phantom's "Divine Necromancy"!

Very few are the albums that manage to capture the raw, terrifying essence of black metal quite like Phantom's necromantic debut "Divine Necromancy". It is often called the "most raw black metal" album, and for very good reason. Released in 2013, on Oc...

Warkvlt, the Complete War Metal Discography

Many bands have something "special", something that encapsulates an entire movement. Suffocation invented the percussive riffing style which led to the brutal death metal subgenre. Burzum invented the loose, tremolo picked riff that led to atmospheric bla...

Five Excellent Black Metal Albums (No More Core!)

You may have noticed that we don't often speak about modern black metal over here, preferring instead to focus on the quality releases of the black metal old guard, the bands that actually created black metal and contributed positively to the genre: Burzu...

King ov Hell: "Black Metal is NOT for Sheep" (Interview)

The controversial King ov Hell is quite the caustic personality. In addition to being a master provocateur, King (real name: Tom Visnes) is also one of the most prolific black metal artists in the scene... he has played - bass, mostly, but also guitars - ...

Hellhammer: "Euronymous was Cracked in the Head!" (Mayhem Interview)

As you may have noticed, this past week I have been quite busy re-reading Heavy Metal Master Class, the best-selling book on heavy metal history. What interested me the most was the chapter on early Norwegian black metal, which I only had a faint memory o...

Earliest Dead Interview, about Mayhem, Trendies and Black Metal

While re-reading the book "Heavy Metal Master Class" in my spare time, I came across something interesting on the chapter of early Norwegian black metal. It was a Dead (Per Ohlin) interview done in April 1989. Now, this isn't significant in itself... u...

Necrobutcher: "They thought MAYHEM was a REGGAE band!"

Necrobutcher is the lifelong bassist of the black metal band Mayhem. Outside of the short period when he was replaced by Varg Vikernes, to record "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" the legendary debut full-length album, he was always a part of the band. But you ...

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