Bathory

Beats anything the rest of us did as teenagers.

A banner year for the underground and one where metal's biggest album ever was released.

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' feature last year...

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 224-page book featuring a varied menu of over a hundred recipes from thirty countries...

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 Wikstrand proves that all of the touring the band did in support of their debut album, 'Into the Ni

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 "two intense months," says the band...

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 inspired by Bathory, Celtic Frost and Motörhead. Tha...