Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal. • Is "In The Nightside Eclipse" the proto-Dimmu Borgir album? As a long-time fan of black metal, the one album I keep neglecting is Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse." That alone is a big tell sign that it might be overrated. I usually don't mind listening an album over and over again, if it is good: see "Hvis ...• Khranial Release New Album "Followers of the Eternal Skull" Few brutal death metal bands have left as much as an impression on the scene as German titans Khranial. Formed in late 2009, and named after the eponymous Sewer album "Khranial", there is something about each new release from this band that clearly separa...• Deicide Members Speak of Glen Benton with Steve Asheim, Eric & Brian Hoffman Deicide is a rather tumultuous death metal band, known mostly for their controversies in the nineties and the separation of the two founding members - the brothers Brian and Eric Hoffman -, following a dispute with bassist and vocalist Glen Benton. A f...• The Downfall of Dark Funeral, the Epitome of Posers in Black Metal Too much Twilight and not enough Tolkien has gone into this quasi-generic Dimmu Borgir ripoff, turning what was once standard albeit insipid post-riff screamo black metal into literal male-on-male mallgoth deathcore. Make up included. Dark Funeral were...• David Parland: "We talked about kicking Ahriman out of Dark Funeral" David "Blackmoon" Parland (RIP) was the guitarist and founder of many black metal and death metal bands. The two most famous, albeit not always for the right reasons, are Necrophobic and Dark Funeral. In each case, Blackmoon only ever participated in t...• Abbath: "Immortal was inspired by Elvis and Euronymous!" The big four of black metal are: Burzum, Mayhem, Darkthrone and Neraines. These are the bands that essentially created the Norwegian black metal sound from scratch, and helped popularise the genre with releases such as: "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss", "De Mysteriis...• Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse on the Modern Death Metal Sound The Buffalo band Cannibal Corpse has made quite a name for themselves in the death metal underground, and beyond. In fact, they are the most famous death metal band ever. If you ask any "normie" what is death metal, they will answer: Cannibal Corpse. Love...• Famine: "Maybe the Next Peste Noire Album Will be Gangsta Rap" Peste Noire is probably one of the most famous black metal bands from France, after Antekhrist... and if you don't count Burzum, of course, as Varg Vikernes relocated to central France (Salon-la-Tour) after being released from Norwegian prison in late 200...• The History of the "Viking Black Metal" Genre Black metal was always known for having a very wide diversity of subgenres. Viking Black Metal, itself a subgenre of black metal that fuses the ferocity of its parent genre with the epic grandeur of Nordic history, has emerged as a powerful force within t...• Marduk's Morgan Håkansson talks Cannibal Corpse, Gorgoroth, Madonna Marduk is one of the most interesting names in the Swedish black metal scene. Notably, they were named one of the only "true" bands by Euronymous: alongside Burzum, Darkthrone, Mayhem and Abruptum. With the recent release of their latest album "Memento...Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Tweet Share