Guess that musician – We have a WINNER!

Last Friday, I asked you to NAME THAT MUSICIAN using this song with the hint that he’s not on lead vocals… And one of you (well, literally one of you who chose to write in – you better work on that, people) answered correctly: Fenriz! The winner of that little game was Kim Dylla, of [...]

Before they were famous – name that musician!

When I was at Neseblud, I got talking to some of the guys there and mentioned how I felt it would be cool to just “stumble across” a certain musician. I won’t name names, but I was told by the person I was talking to that he used to play in a band with said [...]

Metalhead =/= Meathead

…or, “damn; that’s a lot of vegetarians or vegans out there.” Episode 4 of Vegan Black Metal Chef To be fair, many things are being written for the general public about the vegetarian lifestyle and veganism. Be it about the horrors of the meat industry, scientific articles against eating the flesh of other creatures and [...]

Pilgrim – ‘Misery Wizard’, Poison Tongue/Metal Blade; 2012

Rhode Island band Pilgrim are currently being hailed as the bees’ knees in the doom metal circuit, and on first listen it’s easy to see why. While it is understandable that a number of youngsters will copy their heroes as closely as possible, Pilgrim‘s debut album “Misery Wizard” takes influence from their heroes without using [...]

We are BACK!

For Country and King… wait, wait. I thought we had a Queen!   I’m back! Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s good to be back on British soil again, after a month in the frozen tundras of the North. Well… pavements, really. You can see the hills from Oslo, but it hardly comes close to a tundra. [...]