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STEPHEN O'MALLEY Of SUNN 0))) Contributes Foreword To 'Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries'
Innovative metal musician Stephen O'Malley of SUNN 0))) has contributed a lengthy foreword to the upcoming 744-page hardcover book "Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries", an anthology and memoir by Norway's metal godfather Jon Kristiansen. As a graphic designer during the 1990s, O'Malley befriended Kris...April 19, 2011
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SYRACH Announces New Drummer
Norwegian doom metallers SYRACH have announced the addition of drummer Jan Åge Svendsen (TEMPLE SLEEP, OCTAVIA SPERATI) to the group's ranks. Commented the band: "We will now focusing on rehearsing the new material, so that we can start recording a new and great doom album, with the brand new lineup...January 23, 2011
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DECIBEL's 'Black Metal Hall Of Fame' Special Issue Now Available
Decibel magazine presents a "Black Metal Hall Of Fame" special issue featuring eight tales from black metal's vast crypt. The Decibel "Hall Of Fame" provides the definitive stores behind the making of extreme music's most important albums. Each month the expanded stories (upwards of 5,000 words) inc...November 16, 2010
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SYRACH Drummer Quits
Drummer Adam Suleiman has left Norwegian doom metallers SYRACH. The band states, "We have been seeing this coming for some time, since he's only been in Bergen twice in one year for rehearsals. Fair enough, since he got a great job in Oslo he have our understanding and the best of luck in the future...October 12, 2010
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Until the Light Takes Us
There has been more written in books/magazines and visually documented on film about the rise of black metal in the late '80s/early '90s than most would care to shake a stick at, much less a scythe. And almost all of it revolves around the infamous series of events that coincided with the rise of bl...September 27, 2010
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SYRACH Records Demo Of Four New Songs
Norwegian doom metallers SYRACH have issued the following update: "Last weekend we had Adam [Suleiman, drums] coming over the mountains from Oslo, and we started working on a pre-production of four brand new tracks. With little or no preparations, we had a certain pressure to get them right. Adam ha...June 29, 2010
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Black Metal Documentary 'Until The Light Takes Us' Coming To DVD, Blu-Ray
The award-winning film "Until The Light Takes Us" tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-Nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a m...May 12, 2010
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Black Metal Documentary Makers Interviewed On 'Vinland Radio'; Audio Available
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the filmmakes behind "Until The Light Takes Us" — a feature-length documentary about black metal — were interviewed on episode 135 of "Vinland Radio". The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. The story is infamous. It begins like this: In th...April 2, 2010
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MAYHEM Frontman Says VARG VIKERNES Is 'Very Polite And Kind'
Victoria Maksimovich of Music-Photocalypse.net conducted an interview with MAYHEM frontman Attila Csihar before the band's November 20, 2009 concert in Helsinki, Finland. An excerpt from the chat follows below. Music-Photocalypse.net: A year ago MAYHEM longtime guitarist Blasphemer has parted his wa...January 26, 2010
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Black Metal Documentary Makers Interviewed On 'The ParaFactor'; Audio Available
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the filmmakes behind "Until The Light Takes Us" — a feature-length documentary about black metal — were interviewed on the January 7 edition of "The ParaFactor". The chat is now available for streaming using the audio player below. "The ParaFactor" can be heard every Th...January 13, 2010
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GRAVDAL To Tour Europe With GORGOROTH, KEEP OF KALESSIN
Norwegian black metallers GRAVDAL will join fellow countrymen GORGOROTH and KEEP OF KALESSIN on a short European tour in April. The trek will mark GORGOROTH's first tour following the release of its new album, "Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt". The dates are as follows: April 09 - Vosselaar,...January 11, 2010
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SATYRICON Frontman Says He Owns Copy Of BURZUM EP With EURONYMOUS' Blood On It
In the latest installment of Roadrunner Records's "Ask the Artist" series, the U.K. branch of the label sat down with vocalist Sigurd "Satyr" Wongraven and drummer Kjetil-Vidar "Frost" Haraldstad of Norwegian black metallers SATYRICON and put the best of fans' questions to the guys. A couple of exce...January 7, 2010
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'Twilight' Heartthrob No Longer Involved With 'Lords Of Chaos' Movie Project
According to the Houston Chronicle, the preliminary buzz that Jackson Rathbone (the teen heartthrob from "Twilight") would play Varg Vikernes (a.k.a. Count Grishnackh) — the BURZUM mastermind who served a Norwegian prison term for the August 1993 murder of MAYHEM guitarist Oystein Aarseth (a.k.a. Eu...January 7, 2010
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SHINING Frontman Guests On New GRAVDAL Album
SHINING frontman Niklas "Kvarforth" Olsson has recorded vocals for a track on the forthcoming second album from Norwegian black metallers GRAVDAL, "Torturmantra". The song, entitled "Mishandlet", was laid down at the Erebus Odora studios in Sweden with producer Peter Bjärgö. The follow-up to 2008's...January 7, 2010
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Black Metal Documentary Makers To Guest On 'The ParaFactor'
Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell, the filmmakes behind "Until The Light Takes Us" — a feature-length documentary about black metal — will guest on "The ParaFactor" on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. EST. "The ParaFactor" can be heard every Thursday night between 9:00 p.m. and midnight EST at www...December 30, 2009
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