Since its church burning scandals rocked Norway in the early 1990s, Norwegian black metal has provided many artists a conceptual angle into interrogating contemporary notions of postmodernity ...

There’s more to the men and women that devote their lives to the craft of black metal than corpse paint and extreme music. Like anybody out there, they have hobbies and today we celebrate the black ...

Behemoth are not only one of the biggest bands of our time, but also one of the most blasphemous. Their 2014 LP, The Satanist, is a grandiose testament of black metal; incorporating savage ...

The symposium's participants -- both professors and metal fans and students alike -- dissected music by all sorts of black metal bands. Some bands resisted such critical approaches, arguing their work ...

Christopher Dean, a.k.a. “NecrosHorns,” has established a formidable international following with his black metal photography. NecrosHorns is not only a leading metal photographer, but he is also ...

Darkthrone, whose path has crossed with Anselmo’s, nearly reimagined Black Sabbath’s “Under the Sun.” These legends have ...

It’s hard to imagine a more perfect pairing than a black metal art exhibit in a cannabis dispensary’s gallery. But no Satanic alchemist put together Black: The Black Metal Exhibition, a unique ...

After 13 years of great beers, heavy metal music and honest takes, TRVE Brewing founder Nick Nunns said Thursday that he is ...

True art never does, and black metal is nothing if not a truly artful expression. What this expression is attempting to convey has been debated and discussed since the dawn of the genre.

Black and white photos of tall, thin trees in desolate woods are fairly synonymous with black metal's imagery and seems to be a natural fit for an album titled Folklore. Swift's musical approach ...

The Norwegian band’s early years were punctuated by headlines about death and church burnings. It went on to become a beacon of experimentation in the genre.