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The infamy surrounding the Norwegian black metal scene of the early 1990s has a way of drowning out the music. Thanks to ...

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.

But there are still countless black metal bands who have never got the attention ... giving birth to Beherit in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. Explicitly Satanic and utterly primal, their ...

In the 90s, they changed their style to something ... and is widely regarded as one of the pioneering bands of black metal and Viking metal. Their early work was characterized by raw, lo-fi ...

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.” ...

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 ...