Posts tagged with black metal
January 28, 2012 | Cool Websites | by Contributions |
Metal Heads Unite! And thanks to this map, it makes bridging the gap that much easier. Tread the lands of Death, Black, and every other kind of metal you can name.
June 11, 2011 | New Music | 
by Gerry Mak |
A lot of metal people rag on Liturgy (the NYC black metal band recently signed to Thrill Jockey) for being too hipster and false. They’re turned off by the lack of metalhead attire and frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s admittedly pretentious musings on what he calls ‘transcendental black metal.’ Read more
June 8, 2011 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
I’m a huge fan of my friend Karlynn Holland’s art. She designed New York black metal band Krallice’s logo and did the logo and artwork for Dysrhythmia’s last album, Psychic Maps. She has a way with layering wispy and delicate lines to create dense textures and brooding atmosphere. Read more
May 18, 2011 | New Music | 
by Gerry Mak |
Amongst many in the metal scene, there is a great appreciation for spectacularly bad and low-budget black metal. There’s no escaping the fact that early Graveland was laughably bad, but that was part of their appeal. Behold, now, Varghkoghargasmal (say that ten times fast), a completely incompetent German band that decided to make a black metal record without distortion on their guitars. The results are akin to StS’ ‘shreds’ videos on YouTube. Absolutely amazing.
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December 20, 2010 | New Products | by Gerry Mak |
My band, Bloody Panda, used to perform on stage wearing executioner hoods. We’ve stopped doing that, but I’m going to suggest that we all wear panda hat/scarves.
November 23, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
The Meads of Asphodel are hands-down the weirdest black metal band out there, shifting between polka, space-rock, punk, horns, and cryptic narration within their dense, pummeling psychosis. The band’s latest album, The Murder of Jesus Christ the Jew, despite some intentionally provocative song titles and themes, is actually an homage of sorts to the most famous hippie in history. Read more
November 16, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
I got to know Thrill Jockey as the label for mellow, contemplative art/jazz bands that wind up being played on NPR. Of late, though, they have been signing some really left-field acts such as Daniel Higgs, Future Islands, Barn Owl, and now Brooklyn-based ‘transcendental black metal’ band Liturgy. I think it’s a good fit because Liturgy doesn’t really belong on a straight-forward metal label.
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August 24, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
With bands like Krallice, Liturgy, and now San Francisco-based Deafheaven firmly establishing a subgenre of shimmering, transcendent black metal, many metal purists are throwing the tag ‘hipster’ around a little too freely. Burzum’s first post-prison album is also a big slab of pretty, so is Varg a hipster too?
July 26, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
The rainy weather and breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest has been inspiring a lot of amazing metal bands in the past several years — Velvet Cacoon, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Agalloch all emerged from the region. Another great band coming out of Portland is Atriarch, a blackened, sludgy, doom-inspired outfit whose frontman Lenny Smith (aka Behalf) also shreds his vocal chords for the possibly defunct Trees. Hail the New Wave of Pacific Northwest Black Metal. Read more
July 10, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
My band, Bloody Panda, recently had the honor of opening for Amber Asylum in their hometown of San Francisco. The project of primary songwriter and frontwoman Kris Force, the band specializes in string-and-piano-heavy neoclassical/darkwave that required more attention than some drunken attendees were able to muster on a late Wednesday night. Read more
May 19, 2010 | New Film | by Gerry Mak |
I actually really liked Until the Light Takes Us, the documentary about black metal by Audrey Ewell and Aiden Aites. I say ‘actually’ because I can see why so many people didn’t like it. It’s definitely not for fans of the genre, as there is not a lot of actual black metal featured in the film, and it focuses on the characters involved with the now mythic beginnings of the scene, namely Gylve ‘Fenriz’ Nagell of Darkthrone and Varg ‘Count Grishnackh’ Vikernes. Read more
May 10, 2010 | New Film | by Gerry Mak 
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Director Tony Stone’s debut film, Severed Ways, went over the heads of most audiences. The digitally shot film about the Norse discovery of North America didn’t conform to the typical three-part narrative we have come to expect in cinema, it was mostly without dialogue, and it showed one of the Vikings taking a dump. Read more
April 28, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
I’ll admit it gets pretty lonely sometimes being a metalhead in a Wham City-dominated town, but when my buddies in Krallice rolled through with amazing San Franscisco black metal band Ludicra the other night, it was heartening to see the long hair and back patches coming out of the woodwork. Read more
February 20, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
Sigh sound like a black metal demon that fell out of a box of Fruit Loops. Listen to their latest album, Scenes from Hell, while watching the Olympics. You won’t regret it. [Listen to a Sigh song now]
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February 17, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Alexander Binder’s affinity for the black metal aesthetic permeates his photos, but beyond being just fan worship, Binder’s work reflects how the the membrane between the kvlt and other areas of contemporary culture has become. Binder’s images have a dark and ethereally sinister quality about them, obfuscating reality rather than merely re-interpreting or altering it as other photographers often aim to do.
Thomas Hauser is a Berlin-based artist. I like that he’s doing this ‘classic’ theme of still-life flowers in such a romantic but rough way. In his pictures, there’s always something imperfect and awkward. Slick and perfect beauty isn’t that interesting visually. These flowers tickle my fantasy.
I’ve seen a lot of weird nesting dolls — my parents bought one of Bill Clinton and all his women from the Hanoi Hilton where John McCain was held captive. But this anatomical one by Jason Levesque takes the cake as the best one.
How old must Kermit be now? Not to old to collaborate with skater-friendly retailer Supreme and photographer Terry Richardson. Kermit, who usually wears nothing, has been hooked up with some new threads to advertise the brand. It seems Kermit and Terry are the perfect work partners: they’ve even released a video clip documenting the shoot.
I interviewed the mysterious Suitman some time ago for the Australian magazine, Riot. Even then it was clear that, with his immaculately pressed suit and crisp white shirts, he was an icon – both stylistically and conceptually. So it’s no surprise to hear about his latest adventure, The New Grand Tour, ‘an episodic art project featuring revolving guest artists with hyphenated cultural and geographical backgrounds. Read more
Cats have a high propensity for silliness, and toast on their faces, as this set of snaps from the Huffington Post reveals. This is the latest online meme. What’s next: Cracker Dogs? Read more
We name-checked them as having one of the top five albums of 2007, and with good reason. I speak of Nashville band, The Silver Seas. Read more
Erin Shaw creates outrageously creative headdresses out of merino wool, birch wood, glass eyes, paint, and felt. So now you can look like you have a dead animal sitting on your head, when you really don’t. Read more
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Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
Matthew Dear’s Black City album totem
Our friends at Ghostly International are releasing Matthew Dear’s Black City album as a limited edition ‘totem’. A what? A totem – a limited edition metal bar used to access a private music chamber. Cool! Read more
Nerd-attack! Man, this TARDIS zipper robe is so much cooler than any Star Wars crap people are hawking this days. This is for the true gangsta nerd.
Michelle Blade’s psychedelic artwork
Michelle Blade’s washed out paintings are deceptively simple, her washy acrylics creating psychedelic textures and conjuring ghostly figures from the past. Read more
In 2008, graphic designer Becky Edgington and illustrator Sarah Beetson created two limited-edition packs of playing cards featuring images from Beetson’s exhibition, 50 Bucks: Bring On The Sluts. The images were selected from almost 500 small artworks created on moleskine paper, inspired by vintage pornography and a trip to Japan. Read more
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