Okkultokrati

To make up for the two lost years, Hellfest returns for two weeks in 2022, and it would be easier to list which heavy bands *aren’t* playing…

The Norwegian metalpunks are back after four years and they only sound more furious.

Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato, Pyrrhon, Chelsea Wolfe (Cramps cover), Cave In (Rolling Stones cover), Marissa Nadler (Metallica cover), Thou (Black Sabbath cover), Black Mountain, Haram, Mindforce, Infant Island, KRUELTY, more…

Listen to new songs by Perfume Genius (Initial Talk remix), Four Tet, Petite Noir & Kingdom, Land of Talk, Hinds, Sweet Whirl, YELLE, The Soft Pink Truth, and more.

Plus: updates on Shadow Woods Metal Fest, Fire in the Mountains, and Northwest Terror Fest; and tours from Take Offense/Higher Power, Kayo Dot/Psalm Zero, Rotting Christ/Borknagar/Abigail Williams/etc, Mayhem/Abbath/Gatecreeper/Idle Hands, Bloodbath/Necrot, Motley Crue, Vader, and more.

One Tail One Head at Inferno Festival, April 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG) 2012 was a year of considerable personal growth for me, as a person, a photographer and a music fan…

I first came across the name Okkultokrati when it was uttered in the same breath as Kvelertak and the Norwegian collective known as Black Hole Crew which contains Dark Times and Haust…

By:Larm is Norway’s version of SXSW, a mass of bands and seminars in Oslo over three days. By:Larm’s focus is the best of Scandinavia though, and they highlight the region across 24 venues and seminar sites…

The National performing in Other Music| 2004 (CRED) Wired magazine’s Eliot Van Buskirk interviewed Other Music co-owner Josh Madell about the soon-to-be-launched digital…