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I can’t even speak,” Dylan Carlson announces self-deprecatingly after struggling to introduce the final song in tonight’s ...

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In the depressive throes of autumn, the fabled French black metal movement Les Légions Noires spawned the split between Vlad Tepes and Belkètre, March to the Black Holocaust, which has been ...

But this is a Les Paul Custom that has been through the mill, and has been augmented by Hammett over the years. You’ll notice that the hardware is not regulation LP Custom colour. It has been swapped ...

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While they make a good sound, being exclusively for metal seriously limits their potential ... a single pickup and violin-style sound holes. Les Paul was an extraordinary performer in the post ...

“Politics” is kind of a dirty word in black metal. Ever since its origins in the late 1980s, the genre has rarely gone out of its way to address issues of politics. Black metal might pay lip service ...

One such rare resource is the black metal that can be obtained by killing Fulings or from the chests in Fuling camps found in the plain biomes. You can make powerful weapons with high attributes ...

His new album, “Blackbraid II,” is out Friday. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Black metal has long been associated with the gray skies, snowy landscapes and Norse mythology of Scandinavia.