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Demoncy – Faustian Dawn (1993, reissued 2016)
Article by Lance Viggiano. A minor boost- so as not to be outdone by diminishing financial returns – in fidelity reveals that the tonal direction which Demoncy would use to conjure the singularity...
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Peste Noire Booted From Blastfest Due to Antifa Nags
French modern black metal band Peste Noire was booted from the Blastfest 2017 festival to be held in Bergen, Norway next February after anonymous Antifa complaints. Guitarist and frontman Famine...
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Root Announce Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion
Czech black metallers Root have a new album coming out next month. One of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands (formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter), ROOT, from Czech...
View ArticleBlack Metal Is Not Surf Rock
Hipster Youtuber Sam Sutherland suggested in a click bait video uploaded to his This Exists channel earlier this year that black metal is musically the same as the surf rock of the early 60s. This...
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Horna Withdraws From Blastfest in Support of Peste Noire
Finnish black metal band Horna withdrew from the Blastfest 2017 festival after the festival’s SJW-pandering organizers canned Peste Noire‘s scheduled performance due to anonymous antifa nags...
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Angelcorpse European Tour 2016
Bestial blackdeath metallers Angelcorpse are coming to Europe this week for a short, seven date tour. European headbangers can chug pints and liters of cheap beer while bashing their brain cells out!...
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Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas North American Tour
Mayhem are touring North America with a setlist composed of their De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album in its entirely. Mayhem are playing larger venues in many cities (probably due to the publicity from...
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Thy Invocation of Hell Reprint
Malaysian label Afterlife Productions has restored and reprinted Southeast Asia’s first black metal zine, Thy Invocation of Hell. It’s packed with interviews from tons of legendary bands, all...
View ArticleVarg on Burzum’s Recording Process
Varg Vikerenes summarized how he recorded all of the initial Burzum albums in less than a day on a recent youtube Video he uploaded to his ThuleanPerspective channel. Varg admits he prefers rehearsal...
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Tarnkappe Releases Discography Tussen Hun Der Zon/Winterwaker
Dutch insurrectionary black metal band Tarnkappe has released both of its albums on CD as a bundle for those who appreciate black metal that stays true to the late-90s form of the band, which is equal...
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Ungod: The German War Machine That Flies Under Metalhead Radar
History is full of paradoxes. Twentieth century Germany provides one of the major mysteries of the modern era: Why haven’t the Germans produced more high-quality black metal? The country has been a...
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Fourth Monarchy – Amphilochia (2007)
Some rarities of excellence get skipped because they are misunderstood, and others because they are hard to write about. Amphilochia may be one of the latter: a black metal band that is difficult to...
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Varg on Burzum Demos, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, and Offroad Vehicles
Varg Vikernes talked more about how he recorded the Burzum demos by overdubbing cassettes and the bass lines on Mayhem‘s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas at Grieg Hall in yet another metal history video...
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Tarnkappe – Winterwaker (2016)
Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker (“Guardian of Winter” in English) is another Dutch black metal album aiming to extend the victories of the old forward into a modern world deluged with genericized and...
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Blasphemy Release Desecration of Sao Paulo
Blasphemy suddenly released a live album today. The CD of Desecration of Sao Paulo now. Check the usual distros if you’re a war metal, bestial maniac. Hopefully this will sound better than Fallen...
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Vandalism, Bumbling Organization, and Antifa Venue Cut Short Caledonian...
The organizers of the Caledonian Darkness black metal festival in Glasgow, Scotland were forced to cut short the second iteration festival early after an individual angry with the organizer’s...
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Varg on Darkthrone
Varg Vikernes reflects on Fenriz‘s alcohol consumption, Burzum – Det som engang var‘s CD release, the intelligence of Darkthrone, and the toxicity of the scene centered around Helvete in a video...
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Martire – Martire (1991)
As the continent was before Britannic penal colonization, Australian black and death metal scene was and is still mostly an undeveloped desert of unexceptional crossover thrash posturing as “war...
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Antaeus – Condemnation (2016)
Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by Max Bloodworth. Prior releases from Antaeus displayed an alien weltschmerz like an outsider looking into the world and finding nothing of value. It...
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Profanatica Los Angeles One Off Show
Profanatica are playing a one off show in Los Angeles on December first at Los Globos. The Curling Flame of Blasphemy was vomited anal tract but their recent sets have been heavy on older material....
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