Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various black metal album artworks Within the mainstream, the genius of black metal’s music is often lost amid a sea of ...

Today, we celebrate the amazing black metal albums you might have missed in 2025. Honestly speaking, overall, 2025 amounted to a pretty bleak year for black metal. Yet, within the darkest hours, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blackbraid (who also goes by the pseudonym Sgah'gahsowáh) is one of the rising stars among Indigenous performers in the black ...

Today, we will be investigating why five classic black metal bands stopped wearing corpse paint. Nothing is more irritating than the persistent, ignorant belief that black metal is about corpse paint ...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is the creator of Liturgy, the band from Brooklyn that plays “transcendental black metal music,” as defined in a manifesto by Hunt-Hendrix. Liturgy began as a solo project and in ...

There has always been a sense of intrigue and mystery surrounding the world of black metal. Since the early days of Mayhem—the notorious Norwegian band often credited for catapulting the genre into ...

When you think of Nicolas Cage, you likely think of films such as Con Air, National Treasure, Gone in 60 Seconds and a few others, but not black metal. However, he's declared his appreciation for the ...

Black Sabbath was very democratic about their songwriting credits, with all members of the band generally sharing them for the majority of their output. Yet it’s fair to argue that Tony Iommi’s ...

Blackbraid is a solo project for black metal musician Sgah’gahsowáh and draws inspiration from Indigenous peoples' culture and lore. This weekend is significant. It’s a celebration and acknowledgement ...