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10/2026INDEPENDENT METAL & ROCK EDITORIAL
Independent editorial stories with a close view of metal and rock culture.
If you have just discovered Black Metal and want to dive deeper into the genre, the first thing you will do is research on the internet. If you type something like 'The Best Black Metal Albums Of All Time' into the search engines and click on it, you will see many links. The grou
I really appreciate the fact that Fenriz and Nocturno Culto have been hanging out for years as they wish without listening to anyone. After all, Dakthrone is one of the 3-5 biggest bands of Norwegian black metal movement, which has left a great impact on the world extreme music h
Dark Tranquillity is a band that you won't need any introduction when writing about, like the famous Big 4, who have done unforgettable things and managed to teleport themselves to the future. Red Mikael and his crew are here with the 10th album of their career. There are tons of
Crom is the one-man project of German musician Walter Grosse. Walter played guitar/bass in the first album of the German black metal band Dark Fortress (Tales from Eternal Dusk-2001), and then left the band to focus on the Crom project, which he started in 2000. The group has rel
Years ago, an old interview with Mayhem's Euronymous was published in Non Serviam magazine. There, Euronymous argued that death metal, as its name suggests, should talk about and glorify death, and that black metal should talk about the devil and devil worship in accordance with
It was 1960 when four young people camping by Lake Bodom in Espoo, Finland, were attacked. Three of the young people died at the scene, the other was seriously injured, but the perpetrators of the incident could not be found. The injured survivor, after working as a truck driver
Born from the ashes in 2001 after eight years, Celtic Frost's album Monotheist, released 16 years after Vanity/Nemesis, is an album that I could hardly write because of my doubts about how to deal with. If one should name a Swiss rock/metal band other than Celtic Frost, the first
As a person who started listening to heavy metal in 1991 with the Wasted Years EP from Iron Maiden's ten years collection series, it is a fact that I sometimes looked at music through blinders. But as you can appreciate, there wasn't much post, avant-garde talk back then. Music w
Axxis is a top notch melodic heavy metal band from Dortmund, Germany. Founded in 1988 under the leadership of Bernhard Weiss, the band has been playing music with Bernhard and his bandmates for years. “Kingdom of the Night” is the band's first and at the same time most famous alb
Bathory was founded 4 years after Venom. Celtic Frost was formed 1 year after Bathory. Black metal, the invention of Venom, grew a lot thanks to these 2 giant bands. Venom influences on Bathory and CF are undeniable, but especially Bathory was accused of being a Venom imitator in