Ahhh, it's that time of year again. The now infamous Hottest Chicks in Metal - er, Hard Rock - issue has hit the stands, and legions of people who would otherwise be hard-pressed to remember the last time they even read an issue of Revolver are up in arms over its sexist, dehumanizing, and overall [...]
Runhild Gammelsaetter is a fucking badass, no two ways about it. Her presence in pre-Sunn O))) unit Thorr's Hammer is impossible to overlook, in no small part due to the fact that she can lay down a growl few singers of any gender have been able to best since. She was only 17 when she performed on that record too, paving the way for young visionaries like Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator.
By: Navjot Kaur Sobti Now, I'm not usually a chick who has the patience to get through most doom metal, unless it's my bedtime, snooze-inducing soundtrack to abysmally sweet dreams. When I picked up Black Math Horseman's 2010-released Wyllt, however, let's just say I got a wake-up call from a genre I'd otherwise have remained all ...

America faces invasion by an armada of Nazi flying saucers—launched from a secret underground base in Antarctica where they've been housed since World War II. This is the horrifying claim of a National Security Agency source, who says global warming is to blame. "Because of excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the Antarctic ice is rapidly melting—depriving German scientists, SS officers and their families of their sanctuary," declares the source. "Their 'final solution' is to conquer America"." The source claims [...]
So I've been living in the UK for about four months now, and have managed to take in quite a lot of this "culture" thing they're so fond of over here. I've been to nine countries, eight major metal festivals, and a handful of cities in Ol' Blighty itself; I've gate-crashed hotel parties in Norway [...]
how many arms he got? thrashing flailing octopus a blur of banging strings plucked by hirsute hopping-on-one-leg fella together make magic everytime i see chris corsano he fills me with this almost sexual, unbearable urge to hit as many things as possible as many times as i can with whatever's to hand. he is a bursting rhythmic beast. a multi-limbed gigapercussionist. [...]
on the seventh day god (small g) did not rest. instead (s)he got up, had a mug of strongblack and a delicious bowl of cocopops (maybe with maltesers added), cleared up the mucky debris of the previous six days creationist madness, then thought to him(her)self whilst sitting on the john, casually flicking through some foosty [...]
Read a Phil Freeman interview with Norwegian artist Runhild Gammelsaeter ( Khlyst , Thorr's Hammer ) from the October issue of The Wire: http://runningthevoodoodown.bl ogspot.com/2008/10/rapture-of- metal.html

by Invisible Oranges staff Metal bands have been reuniting left and right, going on cash cow tours, and generally plundering that part of our consciousness marked "nostalgia." But what if dead bands could actually still be relevant? We compiled a list of 10. These were our criteria: (1) the band must be split up or inactive for some time; (2) the band could still contribute positively if it reformed today (thus, no bands that split up because they should have); and (3) it [...]