Bathory

Feel the pit stirring.

If you've clicked on this post, there's a good chance you already know who Daniel Ekeroth is.
The 40-year-old Swede is the brains behind Swedish Death Metal, one of the most essential books ever written about extreme music. Noisecreep even included it in our 'Top 10 Heavy Metal Books&a…

To help celebrate Valentine's Day, 'Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook' author Annick 'The Morbid Chef' Giroux has created a recipe for Noisecreep partly inspired by Swedish black metal pioneers Bathory. How metal is that?!
'Hellbent for Cooking' is a 22…

Emerging from the '80s European underground metal scene, Bulldozer are true thrash survivors. Formed at the dawn of that decade, the band combined early influences like Venom and Bathory to brew up a blistering blend of speedy arrangements, infectious guitar riffs, and vocal hooks...

Enforcer just released 'Diamonds,' the Swedish act's sophomore album. It's essential listening for any Noisecreep readers who like their metal lean, mean and surrounded by arena-worthy choruses. Adam Zaars and Joseph Thall step up as a guitar team we should all keep our eyes on, while vocalist Olaf …

New York black metal band Black Anvil may have been influenced by progenitors of the genre such as Celtic Frost, Bathory and Sodom, but for some reason they've reached out to one of the aesthetic enemies of their forefathers to produce their second album, 'Triumvirate...

Today is an evil day indeed, my friends, as Swedish black metallers Watain have announced the completion of yet another batch of iniquitous, Satanic cacophony. The band's fourth full-length was birthed in the putrid bowels of Necromorbus Studio in Stockholm, Sweden, over the course of "…

It's no secret that it's f---ing cold in Minneapolis. That deep freeze feeds the ire of a band like Wolvhammer, who've been together just under a year. But their neophyte status in the U.S. black metal scene doesn't prevent them from making grim, life-ending, blood-chilling music…

Sweden's Hypocrisy continue their nearly two-decade career with the next brutal installment, 'A Taste of Extreme Divinity,' out on Nuclear Blast. Slinging the paint for this release is fellow countryman Kristian Wåhling, who also goes under the name of Necrolord. The ...

White Mice are sick -- and proud of it. The shadowy member who goes by the name Mouseeattoungue reflected on his fond Halloween memories, telling Noisecreep, "Our favorite night for 'grabassassination' -- that is -- grabbing ass in the dark...