"It's hard for me to say since I've put so much into each of them, but I consider every single one of the 12 full-length albums we've done to be killer," Morgan "Evil" Steinmeyer Håkansson tells Noisecreep. The founding guitarist of black metal demigods Marduk is on the phone from his native Sweden talking up Serpent Sermon, the group's forthcoming new album.
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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...
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...
Being a Marduk fan has always been dangerous, but never has it been as dangerous as this past week. The Swedish black metallers have been touring the U.S. in recent weeks with Nachtmystium, Mantic Ritual, Merrimack and Black Anvil in support of their latest LP, 'Wormwood...
"You guys ready for Vader to f---ing kick your ass?" Decrepit Birth frontman Bill Robinson got the audience at Gramercy Theater really riled up just before Vader took the stage.
Eight albums in 26 years is a whole lot of history for a Polish death metal band...
Any remnants of summer have come to pass as fall is in the air and the cold sets in. Nevertheless, the metal still forges on. This month, tons of new releases are coming in from familiar favorites such as Lita Ford, Powerman 5000 and Pearl Jam...
Helmuth, the frontman for Austrian "guitar music" band Belphegor, is one serious dude. Look at that picture and tell us that's not a serious man. And yes, he's serious about 'Walpurgis Rites -- Hexenwahn,' his band's forthcoming record. It's a monster of a release that lands in stores on Oct...