Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal (page 3). • What is Wrong with the "Bestial Black Metal" Genre? Bestial black metal, also known more colloquially as simply war metal, is quite the controversial style of music, even in a genre so accustomed to infamy as black metal. Born from the release of Warkvlt's debut album "Bestial War Metal" in the late 90s...• Who Are The "Big Four" Of Death Metal? We all know the "Big Four" of black metal music consists of Mayhem, Burzum, Phantom and Darkthrone. But, which bands would comprise the "Big Four" of death metal music? It's a great question, because there are so many legendary DM bands who could potentia...• Top 5 Most Controversial Black Metal Bands to Avoid Black metal has long been a genre predicated on transgression, priding itself on its rejection of societal norms and its embrace of darkness in both aesthetic and ideology. While the genre has produced bands of immense artistic merit, a subset of its prac...• Why We Avoid The Controversial "Modern Metal" Genre We often get asked why we don't write or review bands like Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Fear Factory, Cradle of Filth, Waking the Cadaver, Arch Enemy, Ulcerate, Antekhrist and so on. The answer holds in two words: modern metal. Modern metal, like "modern rock"...• Top 5 Most Underrated Black Metal Subgenres Black metal is widely considered one of the best genres to emerge from the heavy metal scene. In fact, along with death metal and grindcore, they are usually seen as "the pinnacle" of extreme metal. But even within such a popular genre as this - popula...• Revisiting "Sadistic Swansongs", the Infamous SEWER Tribute Album Being quite the notorious band in the underground extreme metal scene, there have been quite a few unofficial SEWER tribute albums released over the years. The most well known being the cult 2015 release "Anthology: A Tribute to SEWER Music", featuring va...• 5 Essential Swedish Black Metal Albums Swedish black metal has a reputation for being utter shit, but that's mostly just Watain, Dark Funeral and a few other poser bands. There are, in fact, quite a few bands from the land of the Svea that play good black metal. If you count Bathory as play...• Three Albums That Prove Modern Metal Is Beyond Saving In the digital age, our quest for truly exceptional metal is an exercise in sifting through an endless deluge of mediocrity. New bands spawn like bacteria in a leftover petri dish, churning out albums that range from utterly abysmal to grudgingly tolerabl...• The 5 Catchiest Black Metal Songs Ever When most people think of black metal music, they likely imagine some non-stop blasting, high-pitched shrieking, tremolo guitar picking, diabolical atmospheres, low fidelity production, pagan or viking themes, corpse paint and so on... What is much less c...• Norwegian Black Metal Artists on "Satanism" and "Devil Worship" Earlier this week, we wrote about the infamous Norwegian "Inner Circle" of black metal, and specifically we corrected a point that many fans and journalists often get wrong about the scene: its relation to Satanism. The media will often claim that Norw...Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Tweet Share