Mayhem

Opeth at MHOW, 2013 (more by Caroline Harrison) A lotta cool bands are putting stuff out soon! Let’s dig into it. Long-running Swedish prog metallers Opeth have announced that they will release their 11th album, Pale Communion, on June 17…

Mayhem in Oslo, Norway, 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) Few black metal bands are as storied as Mayhem. Many of the sordid tales that brought Norwegian black metal to the attention of the international press in the early and mid ’90s involved Mayhem members, but they’re really more notable for their increasingly ambitious musical contributions to the genre’s development…

It’s looking like official Festival Lineup Announcement Day with Shaky Knees Fest, Hangout Fest, and Governors Ball giving us their rosters (not to mention Firefly and Coachella in the past week), and now here’s another one: Georgia’s CounterPoint Festival…

Here is the definition of black metal, as told by the experts in Norway’s Immortal:COLD. WÜÜDS. SPIKES. FROST. CORPSE PAINT. BLASHYRKH.There you have it…

Kristian “Varg” Vikernes (aka Burzum) is back in police custody.A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was arrested in southwestern France on Tuesday after his wife bought four rifles, raising suspicions he could turn to violence, the Paris prosecutor’s office said…

DJ Koze (aka German producer Stefan Kozella) has been establishing himself in the electronic scene for over a decade, and he returned this year with his first full length album since 2005, Amygdala…

Compared to days one and two, day three of By:Larm was considerably more indulgent. Two artists (Kvelertak and Mayhem) have played the US several times, and though I was definitely familiar with both, I wanted to see them on their “home turf” so to speak…

Day two of By:Larm (read about day one HERE) started out with a “black metal” tour of Oslo lead to Satyricon to Ministry and played in death metallers Cadaver…

Aura Noir at Maryland Deathfest (more by BBG) An excellent example of poor planning? I arrived in Oslo on February 9th, just a few short hours before Aura Noir played a local show right next to where I was staying…

Egyptian-artist Nader Sadek brought his vision of flesh, petroleum, death metal, and tragedy to life with a FREE show at Santos on 11/20. Based on his In The Flesh concept LP, the artist assembled a team of musicians who helped create the LP including Steve Tucker (ex-Morbid Angel), Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy), Rune Eriksen (Aura Noir, Ava Inferi, ex-Mayhem), Carmen Simões (Ava Inferi) and Novy (ex-Vader / ex-Behemoth)…