By taking black metal into a more avant-garde plane, Manuel Gagneux and Tiziano Volante are stretching the definition of heavy. They reveal the tones and tunings behind their evolution ...

Black metal has cursed the music world with some of the most bone-chilling, brutal, and even beautiful guitar work. Today, we undertake the perilous task of honoring the genre’s greatest axemen!

Before Heilung, God Of War, and the endless onslaught of Viking TV shows, Wardruna were the force reviving Nordic traditions ...

The last five years in black metal have been plentiful. During this time, we’ve gotten amazing full-length debuts by Umoral, Rital Death, Syning, Ene, Tragediens Trone, Funeral Harvest, Mortem, and ...