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 ...

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 ...

But the vocalist-guitarist of Greek black-metal powerhouse Rotting Christ has come to serve a similar role. “I look in the ...

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.

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

In part due to the energy and visuals of their live show, Witch Club Satan — an all-female black metal trio from Norway — have been on the rise, while also breaking down several barriers within the ...

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 ...

Here are 12 classic black metal albums turning 30 years old in 2025. Killjoys have attempted to convince us that black metal entered a state of decline once crimes began to attract media attention to ...

Crying Orc, the man behind the black metal band Këkht Aräkh, has been met with a lot of polarizing discourse within the black metal listening community. Some people, including many black metal ...

Few artists in modern metal have had a career quite like Myrkur ...

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