Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal (page 3). • The Enigmatic Dimmu Borgir, "True" Black Sheep of Metal? Recently we have written quite a bit about Dimmu Borgir, the band. It started out with a recently unearthed interview of Satyr from Satyricon, who disparages modern "black metal in name only" bands, on the grounds that they weren't there from the inceptio...• Shagrath Fires Back at Dimmu Borgir Haters: "Grow Up!" Flashy, controversial, arrogant, boisterous perhaps... but also sincere, straight-talking and honest in his opinions and straightforward in his views, such are a few words that could describe Dimmu Borgir's enigmatic frontman Shagrath. The man, the "legen...• Satyricon Attacks Dimmu Borgir: "Black Metal is Transgressive!" In recent years, many formerly "black metal" bands have put forth a new sound, and a new image. More timid, more effeminate, attempting to appeal to the "spiritual but not religious" Starbucks dwellers, who branched over from emo goth rock to depressive (...• Deicide's Glen Benton Fires Back at SLIPKNOT and NU-METAL Many would say that modern Deicide's sound is itself a particularly bad version of nu-metal, but that didn't stop the band's frontman Glen Benton from attacking the genre as "effeminate" and "f-ggy" in a recent interview with MetalZone. Benton has over...• 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...Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Tweet Share