Little is known about Gates of Eternal Torment. Firthornn, the sole member in the band, hails from New Jersey, USA, and his lyrics seemin...

Black metal's reputation for being badly produced and easy to play has brought with it a ton of "bedroom black metal bands"...

I think it's safe to say that Australia's export of metal bands isn't very impressive. Other than a few bands like Portal, P...

I was on my way out the door one early winter morning in freezing Denmark. I got in the car to go to work on the hitherto coldest and sno...

The Iraqi (yes, you heard me, IRAQI) black metal band Seeds of Iblis is one of very few bands around the world who dares critisize Isla...

When it comes to black metal it's easy for an outsider to think all the bands sound alike, and the veritable hordes of so-called bedr...

Depressive and atmospheric black metal, often chriticized for being a way too "easy" genre that every babboon can play, is mo...

There are so many subgenres of black metal, some close to the roots of the genre and others so mutated they are barely recognizable. Ba...

Most depressive or ambient black metal bands have very little going on structure-wise. Simplistic guitars and repetitive drumming is ab...

Many black metal bands utilize elements of dark ambient in their music, either as intros, by making entire dark ambient songs among blac...

Fronted by bands such as Shining (Swe), Xasthur and Nyktalgia depressive black metal is a somewhat new genre focussed mostly on droning...