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Noise Pollution #30: The Return

The return of Neill Jameson’s Noise Pollution column is upon us.

Bathory's "Hammerheart" Still Fills Our Viking Hearts 30 Years Later

Bathory’s legendary foray into the new sounds of viking metal made waves which still ripple nearly a third of a century later. Here’s some history and personal reflection on what “Hammerheart” would come to be, and mean.

RIP Stig Börje "Boss" Forsberg (1944-2017)

Black Mark Production proprietor, legendary metal producer, and father of Bathory’s Quorthon passes.