Inspired by infamous documentary Until The Light Takes Us, the musician known as Phantom Slaughter launched an unhinged project – and now Megadeth’s Marty Friedman is involved ...

Over 40 years since Venom coined the phrase "black metal" and spawned metal's most infernal subgenre, it continues to thrive. Although many of its forces are now reaching venerable veteran status - ...

The heavy metal genre isn’t inherently satanic. It’s hearty, loud, aggressive and loaded with guitar distortion and commanding vocals. But none of that makes it satanic. The devil, as they say, is in ...

Today, we celebrate the amazing black metal albums you might have missed in 2025. Honestly speaking, overall, 2025 amounted to a pretty bleak year for black metal. Yet, within the darkest hours, the ...

French dark electronic artist Perturbator, spearheaded by lone visionary James Kent, may not make metal music, but there's quite a lot of common ground between his gloomy swaths of synths on his ...

Here are Dark Tranquillity vocalist Mikael Stanne’s five favorite Swedish death metal albums. As a more than three-decade veteran of the Swedish metal scene, the 50-year-old Stanne is, of course, one ...

Back in 2004, comedian, guitar-shredder and sometimes BrooklynVegan contributor Dave Hill created alter-ego Lance, a teenager living with his parents in Gary, IN who also happened to be the lead ...

In a world where backing tracks are a huge debate and the aesthetic of extreme music is being co-opted all over the place, where can we turn for artistic truth?! Black metal. Although the genre has ...

This news release is available in French. Montreal, October 29, 2013 – With Halloween around the corner, it's not unusual to see corpses walking down the street. For some members of the black metal1 ...