“When we first started, the Black community didn’t necessarily ... and energy that heavy metal and extreme punk and hardcore [music genres] have.” And within those extreme genres, Dawes ...

In a world where backing tracks are a huge debate and the aesthetic of extreme music is being co-opted all over the place, where can we turn for artistic truth?! Black metal. Although the genre has ...

For black metal insignias (top), illegibility is part ... A 2015 study from the University of Queensland, Brisbane assessed how extreme music affected anger processing. The researchers first ...

There’s more to the men and women that devote their lives to the craft of black metal than corpse paint and extreme music. Like anybody out there, they have hobbies and today we celebrate the black ...

Vampires of Black Imperial Blood reflects the uncompromising strength of vision scrupulously maintained by the band’s founder ... grandest achievements in extreme metal, inspiring countless ...

Asked if there was a sense that Emperor and their peers were really getting involved in some genuinely extreme acts ... They were no longer strictly a black metal band; they were simply Cradle ...

This L.A.-based underground extreme metal band bring forth a ravenous black metal assault as part of a thrashy spiritual tribute to the Aztec people. The band's name refers to an Aztec god of the ...

As the frontman for Black Flag and later the Rollins Band ... Dani Filth, the frontman of the extreme metal band Cradle of ...

For fans of extreme music, Mayhem released black metal’s defining album, “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas,” in 1994. Everybody else might just vaguely remember lurid early ’90s tabloid headlines.