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Members of Power Trip, Creeping Death, Skourge & more form Fugitive, announce EP & live debut
Fugitive have an EP on the way via 20 Buck Spin, and they’re making their live debut at Dallas’ Wrecking Ball Metal Madness alongside Frozen Soul, Municipal Waste, Creeping Death, 200 Stab Wounds, Vomit Forth, Undeath, and more…
Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson discusses 10 songs he's been listening to this year
The Enslaved founding guitarist talks about the songs by Bathory, Ulver, Entombed, The Residents, Pink Floyd, Steve Reich, and more that have been getting him through this year. Enslaved’s new album arrives in October.
18 New Metal & Hardcore Songs Out This Week
All the heavy songs we posted on BV this week in one place, including MONO/A.A. Williams, Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, Scour, Marissa Nadler/Stephen Brodsky, Nosebleed, Dear Furious, American Nightmare, and more.
RIP Stig Börje "Boss" Forsberg (1944-2017)
Black Mark Production proprietor, legendary metal producer, and father of Bathory’s Quorthon passes.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time
Last year, Rolling Stone published a list of the 40 greatest punk albums of all time, and today, they ranked the 100 greatest metal albums of all time. The list is all over the metal spectrum, from black and death to hair and nu…
Bathory's 'Twilight of the Gods' Turns 25
Bathory has the rare distinction of laying the groundwork for not one, but two thriving metal subgenres. The true core of Bathory, Tomas “Quorthon” Forsberg, may have been one of metal’s great over-achievers, whether that was his intention or not: debut album Bathory helped set the stage for black metal in 1984, and then 1990’s Hammerheart did the same for Viking metal…