When Swedish black metallers Marduk formed in 1990, guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson had a clear, defined vision: to create the most blasphemous band in the...

Finland’s Archgoat have earned a reputation as being one of the most uncompromising bands in black metal, a genre that, by its very nature,...

The route to success is paved with pride. If you want to make it, you gotta have a little bit of an ego. You’ve...

Melodic black metal is a particular weakness of mine; don’t get me wrong, I love the raw, lo-fi stuff, its where I got my...

Over the years, France has pumped out some of the most groundbreaking and exciting black metal bands. With bands as varied as the shoegaze-leaning...

When I first started listening to black metal, I had a select few bands that I spent the majority of my time listening to:...

Even with the continually growing range of sounds in black metal, it still never ceases to amaze me when a band completely obliterates any...

Extreme metal is impossible to define. It seems to include pretty much anything harder than melodic death metal, including some types of thrash, death...

Hey! Do you like self-loathing while listening to your favourite black metal band? Uh-huh? Do you like self-loathing while listening to some depressive sludge?...

You wanna know how utterly shitty I am? Necrowretch's new EP Even Death May Die is made up of 2 songs. TWO fucking songs,...