The notion that the 1990s was not a good time for metal is false! The best metal album of each of those years proves it.

Beherit. Though Norway is obviously the more famous country as far as black metal goes, Finland deserve serious kudos for giving birth to Beherit in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s.

In 2020, Oklahoma City musician James Hammontree released his first full-length as Black Magnet. Hallucination Scene uses all the best parts of 90s industrial metal—even the radio-friendly ...

Putting together an all-indigenous black metal band was, ... If you look at the origins of black metal in Scandinavia in the 1980s and ’90s, there’s pagan, anti-Christian, ...

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.