#black metal

ALBUM REVIEWWIFE "What's Between"

Shortly after Irish black metal outfit Altar of Plagues announced their breakup last summer, the group's frontman James Kelly unveiled the first glimmers of a forthcoming album to come from his electronic side project WIFE. I--along with pretty much all the metal fans I know--wasn't ready to be...

Carena Liptak

FLASHBACK FRIDAYBurzum "Aske"

Scandinavian black metal began as direct descendant of English heavy metal acts like Venom and Bathory, the morbid younger sister of death metal and the spacey, supernatural cousin of hardcore punk. It's a young subgenre—Mayhem's 1987 Deathcrush EP sparked the scene in Norway in the late eighties...

Carena Liptak