Mayhem

Mutilation Rites' Michael Dimmitt knows a thing or two about black metal. He may not have written the book -- 'Lords of Chaos' more or less cornered that market -- but he helped make the movie and metes out some of the most punishing riffs this side of the Brooklyn Bridge in doomy black metal assassins Mutilation Rites...

It had been eight months since black metallers Withered played a show when they were welcomed to Austin's South by Southwest festival with two shows in one day. The long break was much needed after the band played on tours with Watain, Mayhem and Marduk...

Mutilation Rites not only boast some of the coldest, most evil riffs that New York City has to offer -- they're also fortunate to count one Michael Dimmitt amongst their ranks. Besides slinging the axe in Mutilation Rites and Rabia, and having been a part of Disassociate, he also works in film...

Burzum -- the name itself means 'darkness,' and the mere mention of mastermind Varg Vikernes heralds an intense reaction, be it negative or positive. There are few more polarizing figures within extreme metal than Vikernes, who is now almost better known for his violent past and extreme ideologies than for his music...

Ian Christe is a heavy metal renaissance man. Not only has he written for everyone from Spin to Metal Maniacs, he's also released music as Dark Noerd and in 2007 he launched his own book publishing house called Bazillion Points. Since then he released Daniel Ekeroth's 'Swedish Death Metal,' the unofficial bible for the beloved scene...

On Dec. 16 I learned that I still did't know every New York City-hailing black metal band. Dimentianon -- who opened for Marduk's U.S. Plague return show -- is not exactly from N.Y.C., but Long Island's Pine Barren section called Ridge, N...

Before finalizing the recipes for the first heavy metal cookbook, 'Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook,' Canadian author Annick 'Morbid Chef' Giroux cooked and tested each of the 101 recipes submitted to her by various members of established and underground bands...

The rock 'n' roll rite of passage of destroying your hotel room is more a thing of the past, but Mayhem don't seem to think so. Living up to their band name, the Norwegian black metal band vandalized more than just their Hotel Central room on Sunday night after playing a gig in Tilburg, Holland...

Song titles like 'Sweet Child O' Mine' and 'Don't Cry,' have always had the makings of crib room lullabies, and what new parent hasn't grappled at naptime with the notion that "all you need is just a little patience?" So it kinda makes sense that the folks at Rockabye Baby...

"Me and Frost will start jamming again and having fun, and see what happens for a new record," Satyricon leader Satyr told Noisecreep while preparing for the band's final U.S. tour in support of 'The Age of Nero.' "I am OK with being away from home," he said about life on the road, away from his native Norway...