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by Cosmo Lee I got this email yesterday. This is too good an opportunity to pass up. So, let’s put our heads together. What questions do you have for Mr. Vikernes? – – – For reference, here is an excerpt from the new album’s one-sheet. It’s been eleven long years and now the world will […]

Interview by Cosmo Lee Since the demise of pioneering black metal band Emperor, frontman Ihsahn has led a collaborative life. He did three albums as Peccatum with his wife Ihriel. Then he made three solo albums, which have featured Garm of Ulver, Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth, and Lars Norberg and Asgeir Mickelson of Spiral Architect. […]

Photo by Askar IbragimovText by Cosmo Lee Mayhem will tour the US this spring, with support from Ludicra, Tombs, and Krallice. No official announcement has been made yet. But the Internet has been batting this ball around, so I figured I’d give it a good whack. “Mayhem” is still the most loaded word in black […]

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Sr_RaCM-1ug&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0Review by Francesco Ferorelli Directors Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites have done black metal a service with their documentary Until The Light Takes Us. By now the arsons and murders in early ’90s Norway are the stuff of legend. However, they continue to spark controversy almost 20 years later. The film has predictably met with […]

Belphegor “Los Angeles, are you ready for the devillll?” I laugh. But not at Helmuth. Belphegor’s vocalist/guitarist is dead serious. All the stage lights are red. It’s dark, and it’s hot. Others are smiling, too. Eyes glint. It’s time for revenge. Payback for the hours burned to get to this point. James Brown saw red […]

Cats mistaken for stars Oberon and Callisto are Tonkinese cats named after various moons in the cold, dark depths of the outer Solar System, far from the warmth of the Sun. It is only fitting that grim, frostbitten black metal is their muse of choice as they complete a journey to the stars and take […]