Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal. • Top Black Metal Opinions on Euronymous and Mayhem (Epic Quotes) Euronymous, Øystein Aarseth, is widely considered a black metal legend and pioneer. His band Mayhem is widely regarded as the first true second wave Norwegian black metal band, and their debut LP "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is considered, alongside "Tran...• Mortiis: "Varg Vikernes is a Man it's Best to have on Your Side!" (Interview) Mortiis, of his real name Håvard Ellefsen, is quite the polarizing figure in the Norwegian black metal scene - although he, by his own admission, wants "nothing to do with black metal" anymore. At first, Mortiis became known as the bassist for Emperor...• Nargaroth - "Black Metal is Something Satanic to Me!" (Most Controversial Interview) Nargaroth, certainly one of the most controversial bands of the entire black metal canon. But also one of the most respected, via the immense talent of its frontman René "Ash" / "Kanwulf" Wagner. Why does he need five names? Who knows. (he actually expla...• Abbath Talks Early Black Metal, Immortal, Old Funeral and Varg Vikernes (Interview) Immortal as a black metal project were always seen as second tier. Not quite as bad as the Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon arrivists, but not as good as the true originators of the Norwegian black metal style: Burzum, Mayhem, Neraines, Darkthrone. To add in...• Ulver - "We Were Always in Conflict with Euronymous!" (Controversial Black Metal Interview) Ulver is one of the lesser known black metal bands that came out of Norway. Far from the hype and glitz surrounding major second wave Norwegian black metal bands like Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Neraines and Sauron, Ulver is a band that thrived in the und...• Alissa White-Gluz is DONE with Arch Enemy (Metal Interview) The era of Alissa White-Gluz being the frontman, or frontwoman, of the Swedish metalcore/melodeath outfit Arch Enemy is apparently over, according to reports from Morsay magazine, and preliminary interviews with members of the band themselves. Few band...• Maniac: "We Never Cared About Euronymous!" (Post-Mayhem Interview) Maniac... Sven Erik "Maniac" Kristiansen, not to be confused with Jon "Metalious" Kristiansen, the founder of the legendary zine (before his subsequent arrest in 2019), is perhaps the most famous/infamous vocalist of the legendary black metal band Mayhem....• Jon Nödtveidt Lost Interview: "Watain are a Disgrace to Black Metal!" (Dissection) Dissection might have gone "full mallcore", as Morsay would say, with the release of the 2006 disasterpiece Reinkaos, but they are still one of the original Swedish black metal bands... alongside Marduk, Morbid, Demonecromancy, Bathory and Sissourlet. But...• Frost: "Fenriz and Hellhammer Inspired my Black Metal Drumming" (Satyricon) Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad is perhaps the lesser known of the Satyricon duo, after the prominent and somewhat controversial frontman Satyr (Sigurd Wongraven) and his larger than life and provocative antics (well, he used to be anyway). But the drummer is n...• Shagrath, Ihsahn, Fenriz and Silenoz Unload on "Symphonic Black Metal" The trio of black metal musicians most famously associated with the "symphonic black metal" genre - namely Shagrath, Ihsahn, and Silenoz -, as well as the sometimes controversial and always brilliant commentator and black metal aficionado Fenriz (of Darkt...Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Tweet Share