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!

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 ...

It’s just a one-way street. That’s always going to cause conflicts”: How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli “They’re outlaw bad boys who’ve got no ...

Black Monday Market Crash: The unprecedented stock market crash on Monday extended the losses of metal stocks. Shares of top Nifty Metal companies, including Tata Steel, Vedanta, SAIL, NMDC ...

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 ...

You each have a pool of dice and are jointly faced with a panel of instruments, each of which has particular requirements for dice results in order to make it work, often requiring a balance of ...

“Paranoid” peaked at No. 4 and gave Black Sabbath their first and only top 10 hit on the UK Singles chart. Decades later, it is one of the band’s signature songs and a certified metal classi ...

In a recent episode of Riff X's Metal XS, Zakk Wylde, the metal legend's longtime collaborator and guitarist, teased what Black Sabbath's farewell show in 2025 could look like. According to Wylde ...

Lyndon French for The New York Times Supported by By Elisabeth Vincentelli A few weeks before the pioneering Norwegian black metal band Mayhem set off for a North American tour celebrating its ...

In a bit of sad news for all you black metal stalwarts out there, it turns out the infamous (and now former) Helevete record store in Oslo, Norway, was damaged in a recent fire. Investigators say the ...

“Clockwork” was penned by frontman Marcus Bridge and serves as an insight into the mind of a musician forced to be creative after a devastating year and the toll it took on him. Bridge explains: ...