There’s this narrative pushed by music journalists and nostalgia series that metal died screaming in the ’90s. The idea is that the moment Kurt Cobain first played “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” metal clutched its heart, […]
It’s easy to think of Cradle of Filth as simply the massive, globe-trotting horror-metal act they are today. But the band started off during black metal’s massive second wave, and frontman Dani Filth was around […]
Though not the flashiest black metal band of the Norwegian second wave, Emperor were arguably the best. What they lacked in destructive antics, the classically-oriented four-piece made up for in musicianship and grandiose scale, making […]
Black metal probably never intended to be art. In its thrashy early stages as imagined by bands like Bathory, Venom, and Hellhammer, the goal of black metal was to be as primitive and earnestly evil […]
These days, Ihsahn can do whatever he wants. The former frontman of Norwegian black metal legends Emperor has forged a solo career of beautiful, bizarre, and sometimes baffling experimental music that would make your average […]
Second wave of black metal tyrants Emperor blew down the gates with such seminal frostbitten masterpieces as 1994’s In the Nightside Eclipse and 1997’s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, spearheading the symphonic black-metal style […]
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