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The Black Market: The Month In Metal — March 2013

Thu, March 28 2013 7:33pm - Source: Stereogum

I started my marathon at Show No Mercy's showcase and closed it at Invisible Oranges'.

Iceage and the rightwing accusations that won't go away

Fri, February 22 2013 2:07pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

Young punks Iceage have caused a stir recently with thrilling live shows and critically acclaimed records, yet there is one murky subject that just won't go away.

Fear, Emptiness, Decibel: Doom Folk Chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe is the Subject of the Latest Converse x Decibel

Thu, January 31 2013 9:20pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel.

Darkthrone Albums From Worst To Best

Wed, January 23 2013 9:07pm - Source: Stereogum

Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance , their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things).

ANDY O'CONNOR'S TOP 10 THINGS OF 2012

Tue, January 15 2013 8:38pm - Source: crustcake

If you want an albums list, you can find that at Metalsucks. 10.

Watch Eels’ This Is 40 Outtake

Wed, January 02 2013 7:46pm - Source: Stereogum

I haven't seen Judd Apatow's new film, This Is 40 , so I can't really comment on its flaws or virtues, but I will say that I'm impressed by the film's deep connection to music.

Sammy O’Hagar’s Top Fifteen Metal Albums of 2012

Tue, December 04 2012 7:40pm - Source: Metal Sucks

I'd say, "What is it about them that usually bring about such great music and movies?" but… well, the answer's obvious: the world is all worked up over some shit, art reacts to the world, and people want to make significant statements.

Book Notes - Bill Peters "Maverick Jetpants in The City of Quality"

Fri, November 30 2012 3:58pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Top 5: Music Documentaries

Fri, November 09 2012 8:31am - Source: The Four Oh Five

We take a quick look into some of the best music documentaries around.

On Weird Cover Songs

Fri, October 26 2012 4:44pm - Source: Swan Fungus

Reader Bennett (he's one of the good guys! Follow him on Twitter !) asked me this morning to recommend my choice for what should be his first Chrome album.

AL-NAMROOD Heavy Metal Underground

Thu, October 11 2012 8:41pm - Source: Metal Injection

Heavy Metal Underground is a new feature where columnist Alex Phillips will look to the unsigned bands, and pick out ones he feels deserve a spotlight shined on them.

Chelsea Wolfe: Chelsea Wolfe on LA's Strange Darkness And Her Dark, Deep Secret

Mon, October 08 2012 10:29am - Source: Prefix Magazine

Chelsea Wolfe is a dark, mysterious chanteuse who's last record caught a lot of people's ears with its delicate gradient shifts from burning white to pitch black.

Update: Chelsea Wolfe

Fri, September 28 2012 6:59pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

I stumbled upon the Los Angeles vocalist and multi-instrumenatlist Chelsea Wolfe 's music a couple of years ago via a cover she did of "Black Spell of Destruction", originally found on one-man Norwegian black metal band Burzum 's 1992 self-titled debut.

Winterfylleth: The Threnody of Triumph

Thu, September 20 2012 5:27am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The state of British black metal has always been a bit of a sore spot for folks across the pond.

INTERVIEW: Årabrot

Wed, September 19 2012 3:53pm - Source: The Quietus

Norwegian noise rockers Årabrot have recently released a new EP, Mæsscr , out now via Fysisk Format, and their ninth release in total.

Album Review: Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar

Fri, September 07 2012 12:27pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

Phil Elverum has always been relatively nomadic in terms of his aesthetic scope, fluently shifting from soft-spoken acoustic strummer to gut-wrenching feedback maestro.

Racist Rock: An Overview of White Supremacy In Punk and Metal

Mon, August 20 2012 6:02pm - Source: Noisecreep

In the wake of the recent massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, many media sources have taken shooter Wade Page 's association with the underground white-supremacist music scene and blown it up to sensationalist proportions.

Horns Up Ya Shitters! July's Best Metal Reviewed

Tue, August 07 2012 10:14am - Source: The Quietus

1) Music has always been, and will always continue to be one of the most vital forms of free expression; whilst it's equally valid as a medium of art in and of itself, the importance of its frequent utilisation as a tool to rally against social, political and religious injustices cannot be under stated.

Burzum: Umskiptar

Fri, June 08 2012 5:03am - Source: Pitchfork Media

In 2012, the only thing more boring than talking about the past of pioneering musician, divisive theorist, and infamous loudmouth Varg Vikernes, aka Count Grishnackh, is listening to the music he's now releasing as Burzum.

THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases Out Today – 5/22

Tue, May 22 2012 4:31pm - Source: Metal Injection

I'm not in the mood for witty anecdotal introductions this week.

Update: Mount Eerie

Thu, May 17 2012 7:45pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

Phil Elverum, the soft-spoken Anacortes, Wash., songwriter behind the Microphones and Mount Eerie , possesses a clear-headed calm that can be misinterpreted as depression.

May In Metal, Part I

Tue, May 08 2012 11:31am - Source: Pop Dose

The musical genius is back with his third post-incarceration album full of swirling, fuzzed out black metal riffs, bleak atmospherics and precise minimal drumming.

Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Metal Of March Reviewed

Tue, April 03 2012 2:25pm - Source: The Quietus

Nonetheless here are some more pointless things I've learned in the last month: 1) If proof were ever needed of metal's (and music in general) ability to transcend boundaries of geography, race and good sense I give you Orisha Shakpana , Jamaica's best (and only) black metal band.

CRUST BY CRUST CAKE 2012

Wed, March 28 2012 10:07pm - Source: crustcake

Now that SXSW 2012 is done, we're counting down the days until the next one.

Drudkh: Eternal Turn of the Wheel

Fri, March 16 2012 5:12am - Source: Pitchfork Media

Despite the generic image of heavy-metal fans as long-haired philistines in denim vests who'd rather be throwing horns than thinking about their world, the metal community regularly wrestles with thorny politics.

Take Cover: Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror

Tue, March 13 2012 1:15pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

Take Cover features interviews with the people behind today ' s most striking album covers.

Articles: I Went and Saw Me Some Sleigh Bells/Diplo/Liturgy

Wed, February 15 2012 6:20am - Source: Pitchfork Media

"There are now many historians who study popular culture, lowbrow entertainment, and the people of the streets, but I am always dismayed to find that they treat every saloon, high-heel shoe, or rock song as something else. If they are sympathetic to the people who consumed them, such things are remade into 'resistance' against oppression or 'collective alternatives' to capitalist individualism. God forbid they could be simply and only 'fun.'" –

10 Bands That Shaped The History Of Black Metal

Mon, February 13 2012 8:21pm - Source: Metal Injection

BLACK METAL: to some it's the purest embodiment of uncompromising musical nonconformity, while to others it's the meme that keeps on giving (I predict knit corpsepaint ski masks will be all the rage before February wraps up).

Show No Mercy: Death to Black Metal

Mon, January 30 2012 6:11am - Source: Pitchfork Media

I ended the previous Show No Mercy by saying "2011 will go down as the year I got sick of talking about black metal."

A Hole In The Sky: Årabrot Interview And Mix

Wed, October 26 2011 11:52am - Source: The Quietus

Hearing the words "Norwegian metal band" can conjure up an image of face-painted, provocative TNBM loons like Mayhem and 1349 while the idea of a "Norwegian noise group" can suggest very serious people making dense walls of harsh noise espoused by Lasse Marhaug and Jazzkamer.

INTO THE COVEN: WOMEN OF OCCULT ROCK

Fri, October 21 2011 3:17pm - Source: Metal Sucks

I suppose "occult rock" is a handy enough term for it, anyway; it's easier than stringing together "70's-influenced psychedelic doom rock" to describe the aural spells these wicked women weave.

EDITORIAL: CRUSTCAKE VS. THE NEW YORKER

Thu, October 06 2011 6:12pm - Source: crustcake

If The New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones was looking to stir the cauldron with his recent piece on U.S. Black Metal , he no doubt succeeded.

Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis

Thu, October 06 2011 5:16am - Source: Pitchfork Media

The image that Chelsea Wolfe projects dovetails with the general aesthetic put forth by her label, Pendu NYC.

A Scenic Highway To Hell: Ppartying At Norway’s Pstereo Festival

Wed, August 24 2011 10:36am - Source: The Quietus

So when I tell you that, by the time The Chef has served coffee punctually at 3pm, I've already been through Hell once, it's got nothing to do with the previous night spent drinking thirstily in two of Trondheim's most popular hangouts, BrukBar and Familien.

Your Favourite New Band: Fixers

Tue, August 23 2011 11:00am - Source: GIGWISE

With their mixture of avant garde art-pop moments and sky scraping choruses, we here at Gigwise are most definitely fans of Oxford band Fixers.

Tombs - Path of Totality

Thu, August 04 2011 2:58pm - Source: The Quietus

When Mastodon's Leviathan , that rarely-matched-since slab of whale-sized sludgy goodness, came out in 2004, it looked like Relapse Records was on top of the metal world.

Under The Influence: Krallice Diotima

Fri, July 29 2011 11:36am - Source: Stereogum

In case you missed my earlier tweet , I accepted a position at Pitchfork, where I'll be returning as an Editor on Monday, 8/1.

Towards The Sepulchral City: The Urbanisation Of Black Metal

Mon, July 04 2011 3:59pm - Source: The Quietus

The first two waves of black metal – that is, Bathory, followed by the full gamut of the early 90s Norwegian scene – in many ways informed everything that has been produced in the genre since.

Noise from the new Pakistani underground

Fri, July 01 2011 11:52am - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

A paintball field might be an odd place to have a gig, but in a country where the last bar closed in the 70s, it beats playing a basement or a backyard.

EXCLUSIVE BLACK METAL INTERVIEW: MY MORNING JACKET’S “TWO-TONE” TOMMY BLANKENSHIP

Thu, June 16 2011 9:00pm - Source: Metal Sucks

A month ago we told you about " Holdin' On to Black Metal ," a little ditty by My Morning Jacket, not a band you'd really expect to write a song about the darker side of music.

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