If your black metal shelf already holds the classics and you’re itching for something beyond the familiar beats, this list is for you. These 10 bands bring their own sound, mood, and raw intensity ...

Black metal sax solos, wild prog metal symphonies and a new album from technocore masters Electric Callboy lead this week's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 40 years since Venom coined the phrase "black metal" and spawned metal's most infernal subgenre, it continues to thrive.

The heavy metal genre isn’t inherently satanic. It’s hearty, loud, aggressive and loaded with guitar distortion and commanding vocals. But none of that makes it satanic. The devil, as they say, is in ...

With all the hype surrounding Blackbraid and as a fan of their tightly produced LPs, I ventured out to catch them live on ...

French dark electronic artist Perturbator, spearheaded by lone visionary James Kent, may not make metal music, but there's quite a lot of common ground between his gloomy swaths of synths on his ...

When you think of black metal, you probably think of at least a few central characteristics (such as high-pitched shrieking, tremolo guitar picking, haunting atmospheres, feisty tempos, lo-fi ...

Dark metal band Disturbed in concert at Raleigh, N.C.’s Lenovo Center, April 14, 2025. Scott Sharpe [email protected] Dark heavy metal band Disturbed opened their show at Raleigh’s Lenovo ...

Bathory, for example, famously laid the groundwork for future generations of black metal writers and then Viking metallers, with some overlap between those stylistic periods in their career. As ...

Back in 2004, comedian, guitar-shredder and sometimes BrooklynVegan contributor Dave Hill created alter-ego Lance, a teenager living with his parents in Gary, IN who also happened to be the lead ...