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A bloodless slasher, ’Trick or Treat’ is an effective satire of the Satanic panic of the 1980s. Read Pat King’s review of the new 4K release.
Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.
These excellent bands are true heavy metal legends, with plenty of killer tracks in their impressive discographies... just ...
The tune plays out something like a Satanic Hee-Haw jamboree, with Volbeat leaning into a hickory-scented juke joint jangle, ...
The other obvious influence is Gojira, another band who famously feature a pair of siblings on guitar and drums, as Alien ...
musicians linked to the band, including Vikernes, had been busy burning down historic churches. All these events were documented in a book, “Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal ...
On Friday, April 11, 2025, black metal shook the walls of the legendary Olympia concert hall in Paris at the eagerly-awaited ...
It’s hard to defend a lot of the stuff that happened in that period but, in retrospect, it moved some boundaries that needed ...
and bands fight the battle for that transfiguration every day — even now few Satan-heads are not fascist in their beliefs. Which means that black metal is presently where some of the most ...