by Metal Insider | May 13, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
Black and death metal have been kissing cousins for longer than anyone would probably care to admit. Even when the corpse painted legions of Scandinavia took over as the underground’s flavor of the month in the early to mid 90s, while death metal seemed to, in...
by Metal Insider | Apr 3, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
Connecticut and Norway are a pretty long ways off from each other. While the latter has a reputation as a birthing room for some of metal’s most influential babies, the former…well…not so much. However, the reality is that Connecticut (and really...
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...
by Metal Insider | Nov 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
There are many battlegrounds throughout Europe that people associate with World War II. One key area though that doesn’t get the attention it deserves is Norway. The greatest sign of Norwegian defiance to Hitler’s invading Nazis was the letter...
by Metal Insider | Sep 30, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
Black metal has taken a lot of twists and turns over the last twenty years. (Hard to believe that the great second wave of black metal is over twenty years old now.) From avant garde minimalism to crust and punk influences, black metal has fragmented into a veritable...