by Metal Insider | Apr 17, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
The list of metal bands that have attempted to incorporate various elements of folk or classical music is a long, often desolate, highway littered with the corpses of albums gone absolutely haywire. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your view, that list just...
by Nick DeSimone | Apr 3, 2015 | Amplified, Festivals
Amplified is a weekly column focusing on new and emerging artists. Got a band that fits the bill? Email amplified@metalinsider.net. Our usual Amplified post is still coming today – there’s just too many exciting things happening for a single post this...
by Metal Insider | Mar 17, 2015 | News
Venom bassist and vocalist Conrad “Cronos” Lant has never been one to mince words. The British founder of black metal has always spoken his mind about just about anything, metal-related or otherwise. In a recent interview with Australia’s The...
by Metal Insider | Mar 13, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
In the darkest recesses of the Earth’s oceans there potentially lurk creatures as yet unknown to humankind. One could imagine some seismic beast slowly creeping along the seabed some 20,000 feet below the nearest human, waiting to rise up and claim what was...
by Metal Insider | Jan 30, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
In the early 1990’s, when the great second wave of black metal was reaching the first of many creative peaks, Norway seemed to spawn corpse paint clad outfits like rabbits giving birth. While many of those acts faded away as quickly as they came, and others...