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From Brazilian trailblazers to a shadowy Norwegian one-man outfit, these are the cult bands every black metal fan should know ...

For better or worse, we know this to be true: black metal would not have developed the way it did through the ’90s if not for this band. They may have ruled with violence, but they did rule.

In the early ‘90s, Antestor started as a Christian ... vocalist Kjetil Molnes explains that “We identify ourselves as black metal as a music style, not black metal as an ideology or belief.” ...

Thanks to the sheer breadth of music being made these days, it’s not an exaggeration to say there are some black metal and ambient acts out there ... Indeed, it transports you back to the ’90s, but ...

A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, the emotional catharsis ... Cause we know that 90% of the time, they hadn’t seen a band like us play live.” But through the years, Love ...

Impending Doom has the interesting element of being a black metal band. That may sound contradictory ... by the time they ...

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.

(credit: ARIEL IFARGEN) “It all started in the late ’90s when I was in the army ... turning Arallu into a fully fledged band.” Black metal is by no means a music genre that’s easy for ...