by Isiamon of IMMOLITH
Enthroned, Belguim’s most respected Black Metal band, just released their ninth studio album, Obsidium.   Continuing in the progression that started for the band two albums ago, the new album contains nine crushing tracks of well produced, yet still grim satanic black metal.   Having had the honor of sharing the stage with Enthroned [...]

This is an interview that I originally did back in 2009 for my friend’s webzine THE WERKSHED. Annick is an interesting metal head and I felt that this was a cool interview and her story needs to be heard. This was done right as her book HELLBENT FOR COOKING came out and a short time [...]

By: Mike Abominator
“The Grueling sessions cost the band $1 million and ended three marriages.”
Ian Christie-Sound of the Beast
Released towards the end of the summer of 1991, “Metallica” (or “The Black Album”) would take these thrash metal titans from the biggest thing in heavy metal, to pure rock god super stardom and stadium filling heroes to [...]

By: Mike Abominator
NO GODAMIT! I didn’t go to this mighty show. But my friend Joe Pupo did! Joe used to do Rage of Violence Fanzine and Rage Records back in the old days. So once I found out that he was going to see this killer show, I asked him to do a show report. [...]

by Brian Krasman (Mead, Meat, Metal)
A few weeks ago, a digital flier popped up in my e-mail alerting me to the upcoming Negură Bunget North American tour, about as exciting a thing as I could imagine finding in my inbox. It made me come to two conclusions: First, it’s a miracle Pittsburgh is getting one [...]

By: Mike Abominator
Ralf Hauber has been an underground death metal maniac for a very long time now. He has given all of us freaks the chance of finding out new and killer bands for a number of years with his Mystical Music Magazine. He also jammed the death noise with his band Immortal Rites for [...]

By Isiamon of IMMOLITH
Watain remains one of the few bands that have managed to transcend the underground Scandinavian Black Metal scene while still maintaining their underground black metal integrity and credibility. As other black metal bands have risen in the public eye and have been accepted by larger audiences outside of the black metal genre [...]

by Natalie Perez
Brussels, Belgium just got heavier thanks to the stylings of Now, Voyager! While they began under the name of Nebra with drummer Ben, bassist Thomas, guitarist Antoine, and second guitarist Martin, things just weren’t going the right way and after going through a series of changes there was no telling what was going [...]

By Isiamon of Immolith
In 1994 Lord of Pagathorn from Finland released its first demo entitled “The Chaos Spirit Among Us.”  Despite the demo gaining huge support in the underground black metal scene the band fell silent after its release.   Finally the band resumed its activity in 2010, and recorded their second demo.  This landed them [...]

by Brian Krasman (Mead, Meat, Metal)
Christian Mistress will release their awesome new record “Possession,” their first for Relapse. As strong as their debut “Agony & Opium” (20 Buck Spin) was, their new one is even better. The songs are catchier, the guitar work is scintillating and memorable, and the vocals, as always, are smoky and [...]