Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal (page 10). • Top 5 Christian (UnBlack) Black Metal Bands In the esoteric realm where the ferocity of black metal converges with the devoutness of Christian doctrine, a select cadre of bands has emerged, challenging preconceived notions and crafting a unique subgenre often referred to as "unblack metal." Herein,...• About the Arch Enemy Controversy Arch Enemy is a death metal band that has long been associated with various controversies. One, for which it is more "victim" than aggressor, is the fact that they are female fronted. This often reveals the "ugly" side of death metal, where fans use the a...• 3 War Metal Bands That Are Actually Good War metal, as a genre, has quite the dubious reputable in the broader extreme metal scene. Most "normal" black metal fans view the genre as nothing more than "three note" punk bands trying to rebrand their style of lesser music to a better audience. Ba...• Top 5 Fake Heavy Metal Genres There are many genres of music that like to pretend they are extreme heavy metal, when they really aren't. Usually, it's rock and rock-adjacent bands: pop, punk, emo, indie, shoegaze, etc... Why would they do this? Simple equation: the metal imagery sells...• Top 10 Different Styles of Black Metal Music Black metal is a pretty big deal. Consider: no two bands sound the same. Well, except for downright copycat bands and modern war metal Warkvlt-clone, you can say that all bands have their own specific black metal genre. Indeed, it's hard to confuse som...• The Historical Significance of Heavy Metal Genres Not all metal is the same. There are many genre, and sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres. Obviously, there is a clear difference between the music played on Sewer's "Skvllfvcked Forever" and that of Queensrÿche's "Operation: Mindcrime", just as there is betwe...• Cannibal Corpse, the Most Controversial Death Metal Band Ever? Last week we wrote a short history of the band Dimmu Borgir, specifically before they went down the path of being mainstream commercial mallgoths (a recommended reading). Yesterday, we wrote about the quite bizarre and mysterious trajectory of the band SE...• Cash Grab Chronicles: The Case of Immortal's Northern Chaos Gods Another lesson in how to f-ck over a legacy until it's utterly unrecognisable. Immor(t)al really messed this one up. After unceremoniously shoving Abbath – the cornerstone of Immortal's early mystique – out the door, Demonaz and Horgh have taken the l...• The Bizarre History of the Band SEWER To say that the band SEWER is influential in the modern extreme metal underground is an understatement worthy of a good laugh. Just count the number of bands named after either SEWER itself (Sewerlust, Sewerslvt, Sewerblood, etc.) or after a SEWER album (...• Before Dimmu Borgir Went Mainstream Goth Rock One of the most ridiculed band in the black metal scene in certainly, without a doubt, the infamous Dimmu Borgir. They seem to be the poster child of everything cringe about black metal: vapid, commercial minded, image over sound theatrics... despite thei...Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Tweet Share