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Aaron Deal of Salome Listens to Herbie Hancock
Getting the chance to chat with your favorite musicians about what gets their toes tapping is always an interesting experience. It usually yields a few more surprises than you might expect (like the time Blake Judd from Nachtmystium got all giddy over my roommate's Steely Dan records – but that's another story). Nois...
Salome’s Aaron Deal Opens Up About Black Sabbath, Cliff Burton and Corpse Paint
Everyone's got that one band that started them down the left-hand path of enlightenment, to their ultimate heavy metal nirvana. For some people, it was Kiss; for others, Black Sabbath. The times, they are a-changing, and nowadays it very well may be a band like Shadows Fall or Mastodon that lures the young folk in and teaches them the ways of the riff...
From the Depths: Blut au Nord, Darkthrone, Sarke
FADE TO BLACK: Iconoclastic French progressive black metallers Blut aus Nord have parted ways with longtime label Candlelight Records. The band's latest release, 'Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars,' was met with fervent critical acclaim (and is already one of my hands down favorite records of 2009...
From the Depths: Burzum, Woe, Istapp, Lightning Swords of Death
FEEBLE SCREAMS FROM FORESTS UNKNOWN: In a recent interview with a Norwegian magazine, Dagbladet, Burzum mastermind Varg "Count Grishnakh" Vikernes has revealed that he has already written nine songs for an upcoming Burzum album, which he hopes to release next year...
From the Depths: Shining, Anaal Nathrakh, 1349
NEW SICKNESS: Swedish black metallers Shining have uploaded several new tracks off their forthcoming new album, 'VI / Klagopsalmer,' which is due out on Osmose Productions on June 15. The album was recorded at the Slaughterhouse Studios with producer Rickard Bengtsson and features Tom Cato "King Ov Hell" Visnes (God Seed, Sahg, Jotunspor, I, Audrey Horne) on session bass...
From the Depths: Burzum, Hellhammer, Les Discrets
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: Perhaps the most controversial figure in extreme music, Varg Vikernes, (aka Count Grishnackh) has confirmed that, after spending 16 years locked away in a Norwegian prison, he has finally been released. Vikernes is now living in Bø, Norway, with his French wife and young son, and has been quoted as saying, "I'm ready for society - and I have been for many years. I hav...
From the Depths: Nattefrost, Goatwhore, Adorned Brood
FRESH MEAT: The European release of 'Engangsgrill,' the split album from Norwegian Black Metal legends Nattefrost (Carpathian Forest) and Fenriz (Darkthrone) is now available from Indie Recordings, in both CD and LP formats. The 8-track album comprises three tracks of doom from Fenriz' Red Planet, and five tracks of previously unreleased, or rare and difficult to find material, from Nattefrost's o
Snowed In With Salome
Virginia' based doomhaulers Salome have been everywhere lately, playing shows up and down the East Coast, swinging by Atlanta to rock with the best of 'em, and blowing out eardrums across the globe with their devilishly decimating brand of riff worship...
From the Depths: Hole In The Sky Fest, Behemoth, Negura Bunget
FESTIVAL ALERT: The infamous Hole In The Sky Metal Festival, which is held every year in Bergen, Norway, has announced this year's jaw-dropping lineup. Enslaved will be hosting a night of true Norwegian black metal classics, joined by members of Darkthrone, Mayhem and Emperor...
Skeletonwitch Get Manly
By now, anyone with a pair of eyes and at least one functioning eardrum can tell that Skeletonwitch's molten black thrash attack is definitely not for the faint of heart or short of hair. Razor-sharp riffs, machine gun blasting, sepulchral vocals and the nastiest guitar duels since Bonded by Blood make short work of wimps, posers, and the otherwise unworthy...