Varg Vikernes expressed how he felt about tributes to Burzum and the toxicity of the Norwegian black metal scene centered around Euronymous of Mayhem in a new black metal history video to this ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. Varg stated that the tribute bands are creatively inspired by him:
86 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, Euronymous, metal history, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, varg vikernes, youtube
Graveland announced a new album of studio rerecordings of prior material and premiered a new music video for “Thousand Swords” on their Facebook page. 1050 Years of Pagan Cult comes out this November.
7 CommentsTags: 1050 Years of Pagan Cult, Black Metal, graveland, Heavy Metal, melodic black metal, music video, poland, rerecording, upcoming release
The popular music industry peaked financially in 1996 but had creatively begun bottoming out years before that. Digital file sharing of lossily (and later losslessly) compressed formats simply burst the bubble of the industry’s festering corpse the ignorant had mistaken to still be moving as the putrefying gases bloated body cavities.
19 CommentsTags: 1990s, assimilation, compact disc, false metal, History, music industry
Varg Vikernes discussed the lyrical inspiration behind “Beholding the Daughters of the Firmanent” off Filosofem in a recent Youtube video. Was Burzum inspired by ancient biblical cosmology or something else? Let’s find out!
30 CommentsTags: burzum, Filosofem, j.r.r. tolkien, metal history, tolkien, varg vikernes, youtube
Swedish death/black metal band Sarcasm‘s first LP, Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds, is coming out in March as announced on their Facebook page. The band’s Burial Dimensions demo compilation was extremely promising but featured too many in-congruent keyboard interludes and too much fat that needed trimming.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, sarcasm, Sweden, upcoming release
A three CD Summoning tribute album of covers is coming out this December from Wolfspell Records.
7 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, covers, Summoning, tribute album, upcoming release, Wolfspell Records
Brett Steven’s Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity sold out quickly at Hells Headbangers’ metal distro so Hells Headbangers has just restocked it! You know you want it hard. Now you can get it hard fast again with DHL international shipping! Believe in nothing and take it like man! How do you expect to reach emptiness without mentally climaxing into the vortex? Are you man enough?
124 CommentsTags: book, brett stevens, hells headbangers, Nihilism, Philosophy
Varg Vikernes released another black metal history video on his ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. Want to know about the Satanic practices of Mayhem, Satyricon, Immortal, and Burzum? Let’s find out:
61 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, mayhem, metal history, norway, Satanism, varg vikernes, youtube
Death bobble-heads, Abbath shower curtains, now Dismember leggings! Dismember t-shirts sold out quickly so now Dismember have branched out to women’s sportswear with Like an Ever Flowing Stream leggings! Will Fred Estby be the next Michael Kors? Will Fred Estby make his mortgage payment on time this month?
34 CommentsTags: cash grab, Dismember, Like an Ever Flowing Stream, merch, merchandise
Enslaved‘s debut 1994 album Vikingligr Veldi is out on vinyl for the first time for all the crazy collector hipsters out there who need a CD on wax courtesy of Norse Music. The 2x LP comes in a gatefold sleeve and features a new layout designed by Zbigniew Bielak (Mayhem, Zom, Ghost).
55 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Enslaved, Norse Music, norway, reissue, Vikingligr Veldi, vinyl
