Here are the 11 best progressive black metal bands of all time! Since its inception in the early 1980s, black metal has been known for a few key – and at times, unsavory – characteristics ...

This week we have Nannette Crane-Post, owner of Black Ribbon Books in Hot Springs, Arkansas. What’s your store’s story? Black Ribbon Books is a woman-owned bookstore. I'm a full-time community ...

This week we have Nannette Crane-Post, owner of Black Ribbon Books in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Black Ribbon Books is a woman-owned bookstore. I'm a full-time community college faculty member who ...

That riff in itself shifted heavy metal and I have to give that album and that particular song a lot of credence.” On July 5, Black Sabbath will cap off a nearly 60-year career with the Back to ...

If you’re a fan of black metal, odds are pretty good you know of the legendary Ihsahn thanks to his work in both Emperor and his solo career, but now his progeny is in the game and their band just ...

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!

“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 ...

As I lifted my camera to begin photographing, I realized I had white corpse paint all over my cameras from spending time with a black metal band earlier. Swedish metal legends Candlemass arrived ...

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 ...

To make clear labels, look for label cassettes described as “black on clear,” like these Brother labels, which prints black text on clear tape. (Always be sure to double-check that the labels ...

“Not real black metal”? Call the jury back in! Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Prog and Metal Hammer, at his ...

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