gorgoroth

With everyone and their mother racing to post their year-end lists before the end of 2009, Noisecreep's token kvlt kommando 'Grim' Kim Kelly figured she may as well rain on everyone's parade and concoct a nasty little list of her own. Thusly, Noisecreep's Top 10 Black Metal Records of 2009 have been lovingly selected and dissected for your listening pleasure...

"When I grew up, I was a total black metalhead." Impious drummer Michael Norén tells Noisecreep, explaining the inclusion of Gorgoroth, Dissection and, perhaps, the Black Dahlia Murder on his 'Your iPod Is Showing' list. "The people living in the small community where I was born and raised -- 72 inhabitants to this day -- miles away from civilization, were scared to death of me. Es

The last thing you'd expect the longtime bassist of Floridian death metal institution Obituary and the bassist of evil-as-hell Norwegian black metalists Gorgoroth to be is a former mortgage broker. But Frank Watkins was exactly that. "I had a mortgage company for a while and mortgages went out the window in America and it's all corporate," Watkins told Noisecreep...

Frank Watkins is the bassist in two high profile underground metal bands: Obituary and Gorgoroth. He is able to serve both masters with equal effectiveness, though! "It's a smooth-running train," Watkins told Noisecreep about how he juggles double duty with a Florida-based and a Norway-based band...

There's been a swirl of controversy surrounding Norway's Gorgoroth for quite some time. Whether it was ex-vocalist Gaahl's legal troubles -- he beat the living piss out of someone -- or Gaahl's and ex-bassist King ov Hell's battles with guitarist Infernus over the band's name when the two factions split into two Gorgoroths, the band is always exciting to follow...

The greatest force that delayed the release of Gorgoroth's seventh studio album, 'Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt' was Gorgoroth itself. On Oct. 21, 2007, guitarist Roger Tiegs (a.k.a. Infernus) announced he could no longer continue working with vocalist Gaahl (who joined the band in 1998) and bassist King Ov Hell (who had been with the group since 1999)...

Nothing can stop black metal pioneers Gorgoroth -- not an ugly lawsuit with the band's former vocalist and bassist, not the mocking Norwegian press and especially not a prison sentence. In 2005, a young woman in Norway accused guitarist Roger Tiegs (a...

Gorgoroth frontman Roger Tiegs (a.k.a. Infernus) has been immersed in Norwegian black metal blasphemy since 1992, and played a major role in staging the band's controversial 2004 show in Krakow, Poland. During that concert, Gorgoroth performed on a stage adorned with nude male and female models nailed to crosses and real sheep's heads affixed on stakes...

REISSUE ALERT: Anaal Nathrakh fanboys, take note! The U.K. black/grind experimentalists are reissuing their vital debut album via FETO Records, the label run by Napalm Death's Shane Embury and Anaal Nathrakh's Mick Kenney. A remastered digipak of 'The Codex Necro' will be strictly limited to 1,000 -- and will also feature the unreleased 1999 demo track 'We Will F---ing Kill You...

END OF AN ERA: Norwegian black metal icon Gaahl has announced his decision to retire from metal music, leaving his new bandmates in God Seed in the lurch and bringing a very definite end to the Gorgoroth vs. Gorgoroth name dispute's legal proceedings of the past year...