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Entry Level: Tamás Kátai Discovers Stormwitch

The Thy Catafalque multi-instrumentalist reflects on his heavy metal roots.

Aetherius Obscuritas: Gay pr0n or black metal?

Now, that title isn’t really a dis. In fact, Aetherius Obscuritas is a fine black metal band that’s really grown over the years. But music hasn’t been the only thing that’s grown. In my review of the band’s latest album Black Medicine (Paragon, 2009), I noted a possible correlation between body type and music type. […]

Animosity, Impaled, Marblebog, Hirax, etc.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jMN_QqXig] Last year, as a goodwill gesture to hometown fans, Animosity played a free show in a San Francisco park. I wasn’t there, but the event was captured on video (see above). It’s so San Francisco, from the decidedly mixed crowd to the incongruity of death metal outside on a rainy afternoon. Dig the guitarists’ […]