Black metal has cursed the music world with some of the most bone-chilling, brutal, and even beautiful guitar work. Today, we undertake the perilous task of honoring the genre’s greatest axemen!

Reed’s work confronts not just one, but two historically male-dominated spaces: metal and classical music. (She is classically trained in soprano sax, but also plays guitar and bass.) Her reception in ...

Though Black Sabbath is steeped in lore, what often gets left out is just how funky the pioneering heavy metal act is.

Deafheaven play a form of music dubbed “blackgaze” due to its mix of black metal and shoegaze (“shoe metal” evidently didn’t have quite the right ring to it). The San Francisco band have acquired a ...

It’s always fascinating when underground metal goes so deep into its zone that it essentially stops sounding like metal. Planning For Burial, the one-man project from Wilkes-Barre musician Thom ...

In the United States, the subculture of black metal is often associated with devil-worshipping antics and various forms of reactionary moral panic. Abroad, however, the spooky sub-genre of rock music ...

Received wisdom has it that black popular music arrived in Europe with the Empire Windrush in 1948, but Clarke brings us black sounds recorded in Europe from as far back as 1900. Focusing on early ...

There's no better way to spend your day off than drinking a cold beer with friends and blasting your ears off with some live music (just ... or tear-your-face-off black metal?

The Black Welsh Music Awards aim to become "the Welsh Mobos ... Benji Webbe, frontman of reggae metal band Skindred, is the only black Welsh artist to win a Mobo, winning Best Alternative ...

But yes, of course.’ He continued: “Heavy metal is the music that made me love music, and Black Sabbath invented heavy metal. “And Ozzy Osbourne, by discovering the guitarist Randy Rhoads ...