Latest about black metal
Rising black metal favourites Gaerea release crushing single Hope Shatters, announce new album Coma
The masked black metal force’s fourth album comes out in October
How Dimmu Borgir’s symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows
The story of Dimmu Borgir’s Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, the album which drew up the blueprint for symphonic black metal
Anthrax bassist Frank Bello has joined Norwegian black metal band Satyricon
The beloved thrasher will play some black metal across Europe this summer
Meet Witch Club Satan, the feminist trio pushing the boundaries of metal's most extreme subgenre
Witch Club Satan are powered by female rage and are rewriting the black metal rulebook
Black metal enigmas Gaerea release hammering new single World Ablaze
The beloved collective, who are about to tour with Wolves In The Throne Room, are expected to release their fourth album later this year
Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did
The avant-garde maestro explains why his new, self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet
"The major metal magazines slaughtered Emperor's early albums." How black metal icon Ihsahn ditched corpsepaint and church burnings to become a prog master
Growing up, it was expected that Vegard Sverre Tveitan would take over the family farm. But when he rebranded himself as Ihsahn he became a pioneer of black metal, before ditching it all for prog
"The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now
The metal scene is more exciting and diverse than ever, and here's the proof
"Enslaved still sound as explosive as they did when they started." Enslaved, Svalbard and Wayfarer contort black metal into startling new forms at stunning London show
At a rammed Islington Assembly Hall, a bill headed by viking explorers Enslaved pushes black metal into new, fascinating soundscapes
Emperor’s Ihsahn reflects on black metal church-burnings: “We were all very consumed with the whole thing. The attention it got.”
in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Emperor’s Ihsahn looks back upon the controversial church-burnings which brought notoriety to the Norwegian extreme metal scene in the 90s
