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Swedish black metal band Istapp will unleash 'Blekinge' this month on Metal Blade Records, their first for the label. The cover was created by the band's bassist, C. Ashuck von Renvaktar, and features a wintery, gray landscape with a large elephantine tree in the foreground, covered in snow and reaching out with claw-like branches...

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...

There was this one time when I made up a story about a fight I had been in. It was back when I was in grade school, and this kid who was two or three years older than me, and used to pick on my all the time (we lived in the same neighborhood) got his proverbial a-- handed to him by a bunch of high school kids...