corpse paint and church burnings in Norway). As such, you might expect black metal to be the complete antithesis of progressive rock since that subgenre is known for its fancy arrangements ...

Here are the 11 best black metal vocalists! Black metal is known ... King Diamond’s theatrics, face paint, early embrace of Satanic themes and much more have proved massively influential.

The most durable spray paint for metal is the crucial element of many DIYs and home improvement projects, but it can be hard to find one that actually works. If you've been in the market for a while ...

He is best known as a controversial musician — and a convicted murderer. Varg Vikernes initially rose to prominence in the early 1990s, as Norwegian black metal first burst onto the scene, with his ...

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!

Black metal is the Satanic and anti-Christian offshoot of speed metal. Members of these bands often find themselves in trouble with the law. Take the case of Illvastar, the bass player for a Norwegian ...

In November, just after the election from hell, I became a metalhead. It was an accident, but it’s too late to reverse course now. Before saying more about that, I want to step back in time.

Agriculture are one of the best and most interesting newer black metal bands around, and one of my favorite parts about them is the way they break up all the harsh fury with guitarist Dan Meyer ...

That riff in itself shifted heavy metal and I have to give that album and that particular song a lot of credence.” On July 5, Black Sabbath will cap off a nearly 60-year career with the Back to ...

Installation insight: Use metal brackets for heavy items (I hid mine with matte black spray paint). For a playful twist, stagger shelf depths – my 12-inch-deep lower shelf holds art books, while the 6 ...

One of them is Takiaya Reed, a Black, Cherokee, Two-Spirit musician that leads Divide and Dissolve, a doom metal band known for its slow, heavy, emotionally immersive sound that doesn’t need lyrics to ...