If you've clicked on this post, there's a good chance you already know who Daniel Ekeroth is. The 40-year-old Swede is the brains behind Swedish Death Metal, one of the most essential books ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bathory albums. 2024 marks two vital anniversaries for Bathory. It’s been 40 years since the cult icons’ eponymous debut, a ...

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Incredibly, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Bathory’s seminal Under the Sign of the Black Mark. Bathory first burst into the consciousness of the metal underground in 1984. The ...

Bathory have always been noted as one of the most important black metal bands of all time - Hammerheart just proved their dominance. Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our ...

As the lights go out on next year’s Beyond The Gates Festival in Bergen, Norway, a special remembrance of one of black metal’s more influential artists will take center stage. About two decades after ...

It can be a tricky affair to reconcile black metal with its creators – to strip away the mystique, the darkness and the otherworldly allure that radiates from the speakers and consider the ...

Every band out there’s got their own set of influences, from old school metal giants to major acts that might fall just outside of their primary genre. Music means something different to different ...

It wasn't that long ago that Five Finger Death Punch was a new band with a vision -- to bring metal back to the masses the way that it should be. 2007's 'The Way of the Fist' album started laying the ...