During black metal’s most creatively fertile period in the early 1990s, a handful of Greek musicians forged an alternative musical path noticeably different from that of their Nordic peers. Their efforts would subsequently crystallize into the Hellenic black metal sound or style.
38 CommentsTags: 2015, Black Metal, epic heavy metal, Greek Black Metal, Heavy Metal, macabre omen, review
Antifascist terrorists attacked the police protecting the Messe des Morts festival in Montreal on Saturday in response to Graveland, Mgła, and Forteresse playing, who the terrorist all accuse of being Neo-Nazis who wanted to violate Montreal’s safe space. The leftist terrorists purchased tickets to the sold out festival on the second-hand market, infiltrated the crowd wearing ski masks, and threw smoke grenades at the entrances. The antifa terrorists attacked the police who were supposed to be protecting the venue, artists, and concertgoers from their planned protest. One of the “protesters” turned terrorists was Alexandre Boulerice, federal MP for the New Democratic Party in the Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie riding. The police ended up shutting down the festival for “safety reasons”.
111 CommentsTags: alexandre boulerice, antifa, antifascist, Black Metal, canada, censorship, communists, festivals, Forteresse, graveland, katie nelson, messe des morts, metalgate, Mgła
Tomas Nyqvist, the founder of legendary Swedish label No Fashion Records and the Putrefaction Magazine zine, was interviewed by Bardo Methodology. Tomas talks about his zine and label, the careers of Morbid, Mayhem, Merciless, Dissection, and Katatonia, and how the infamous Stockholm record store House of Kicks screwed them all over. A book compilation of Putrefaction Magazine is scheduled for 2017 too.
6 CommentsTags: bardo methodology, Black Metal, Dead, death metal, dissection, house of kicks, interview, mayhem, merciless, morbid, Sweden, tomas nyqvist
Thy Invocation of Hell zine 21st anniversary reprint from Afterlife Productions is available in the United States from vinyl specialist distro Analog Worship. The zine is packed with interviews conducted in the early, formative days of legends like Beherit, Blasphemy, Varathron, Immortal, and Emperor. Afterlife Productions themselves are down to their last 30 copies for those close to Malaysia.
No CommentsTags: afterlife productions, analog worship, Black Metal, book, metal zine, news, thy invocation of hell, underground zines, zine
Graveland are embarking on their first ever tour. Latin American headbangers will get a chance to be honor the All-Father with Rob Darken and his fellow Poles next year.
8 CommentsTags: Black Metal, graveland, Heavy Metal, latin america, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
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. Tickets may be purchased from this link: http://bit.ly/profanaticaLA
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, los angeles, paul ledney, profanatica, upcoming shows
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 had an air of royalty as well as an air of embarrassment in its simplicity. Intuitive destruction of an end-in-itself, the music delivered a perspicacious view of the bleakness embodied in the microcosm and macrocosm, with the nature of man clinging onto its pitiful existence. Ultimately the value of such an inquiry is in the unraveling of itself to the threshold of exhaustion, then being untoward to the world-as-it-is as its conclusion. Such bold statements of violence to humanity and to the self led to its unique logogenesis which thrusted them above most of their peers as a more realized and apt style of music like Von. Antaeus had the face of an outsider in a sea of complacent faces.
37 CommentsTags: 2016, Antaeus, Black Metal, france, norma evangelium diaboli, review
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 metal”, blackened cheeseball beer metal, AC/DC clones with unclean vocals, and experimental technical deaf metal/post-hardcore/jazz fusion hybrids. Martire rode forth from obscurity to restore fruit and flower to the wasteland, fertilizing the barren bush wielding fire and sword.
9 CommentsTags: 1991, Australia, Black Metal, death metal, dominator records, EP, Grindcore, martire, nuclear war now! productions, War Metal
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 uploaded to his ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. Want to know about how Fenriz felt about Euronymous‘s death and threats toward Varg? Let’s find out!
16 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, darkthrone, fenriz, helvete, metal history, nocturno culto, norway, scene, varg vikernes, youtube
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 inability to pay them vandalized the backstage area. Pig’s blood meant meant for Pseudogod, Sortilegia, and Ifrinn sets was used to paint six foot tall swastikas all over the white dressing room walls. Copying Dismember and Mayhem‘s shtick when you’re mediocre and not securing your own blood is a no no. Antifascists venue owners ended up canning Dead Congregation‘s and Svartidaudi’s sets, doing what they had threatened to do before the second day of the festival had even started
4 CommentsTags: antifa, antifascist, Black Metal, caledonian darkness, festivals, scam, scotland
