Toxic Holocaust

"We have no political message or anything," Satyricon frontman Satyr said shortly after a scorching set by Taiwanese black metal freedom fighters Chthonic. "We just have the message of black metal." And that was all it took. Satyricon may not wear corpse paint or spiked shin guards anymore, and they've mostly forsaken blast beats for thundering double-bass rolls and trad rock

On Oct. 27, Toxic Holocaust and the Black Dahlia Murder performed in Nashville, much to the chagrin of the town's most conservative residents, who objected to the bands' arrival at the city's Christian-run Rocketown venue. The controversy even made the local news, and local parents are hopping mad that the venue will host such blasphemous acts...

He may look ominous and scary, but Satyricon's namesake, Satyr, is really quite polite and pleasant. We spoke to him after midnight in his native Norway, but he insisted he's not a nocturnal night owl, up till all hours. "I have been out all day and came back home like an hour ago, so I am doing this interview and going to bed," he told Noisecreep...

Later this November, blackened metallers Skeletonwitch will take Europe by storm with a co-headlining tour alongside Goatwhore and Toxic Holocaust. Though the announcement comes while the 'Witch are currently on tour stateside with Children of Bodom and the Black Dahlia Murder, guitarist Scott Hedrick shares his excitement for the forthcoming trek, exclaiming, "Hell f---ing yeah...

Atakke played a park in August. And they opened for Amebix in February. Yet, the Brooklyn band, which formed in 2006, still remains under the radar of underground extremers you need to watch. "We're Atakke, and we're from here. Yeah, we live in the club," vocalist Chloe Puke said, after the band was several songs deep into their set...

"Any old school motherf---ers in here?" Dying Fetus vocalist and guitarist John Gallagher shouted to a packed Starland Ballroom. Half of the room jagged their horns in the air. Yet it's a pretty safe bet half of that room was not even born when Gallagher and former bassist Jason Netherton formed Dying Fetus and wrote the band's first demos in the early '90s...

Man, last night, the sky over Manhattan was truly metal. Sort of like the cover of an Amon Amarth album, minus the Viking pirates. Violent lightning bolts danced across the heavens, and the stinging rain pounded the pavement, slowly flooding the littered streets...

When there is free beer, at a free show in New York, N.Y. of all places, everyone gets excited. So on Aug. 6 at Fontanas, when Howl drummer Tim gulped his tightly-gripped can of beer, there was cheering and clapping -- basically way too much happiness for a metal show...

It's a muggy, overcast Friday morning here in New York, and we're capping off the last week in July with a bang. Today's White Noise is packed with metal news and notes, and we'll start this column with an update to a story that has been piquing our interest for weeks now: The question of whether Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne's longtime guitarist, is still Ozzy Osbourne's longtime guitarist... Read M

Metal is not immune to trends, and it's had its fair share of horrid ones. Does anyone really want to revisit funk metal anytime soon? That said there are still eras in its history that can and should be kept alive. In the last few years, a new front of bands has brought back the thrash sound that first crept into the scene in the early-to-mid 1980s with bands like Testament, Anthrax and Razor...