Video: The History Of Black Metal By Fenriz

Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance , their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things). It's been 26 years since their formation (as Black Death), 22 years since their first LP (the technical death-metal album Soulside Journey ), and 21 years since they abandoned technical death metal to play primitive black metal, the genre they helped to define, in Norway, alongside Mayhem and Burzum and a host of lesser (or later) luminaries. Also worth noting: It's been 20 years since the band's rhythm guitarist, Ivar "Zephyrous" Enger, [...]

[author-name] Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance , their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things). It's been 26 years since their formation (as Black Death), 22 years since their first LP (the technical death-metal album Soulside Journey ), and 21 years since they abandoned technical death metal to play primitive black metal, the genre they helped to define, in Norway, alongside Mayhem and Burzum and a host of lesser (or later) luminaries. Also worth [...]

It?s February once again and MetalUnderground.com has decided to bring back Black Metal History Month, (see what we did there?) This month MetalUnderground and in particular Sunday Old School, will be looking at some of the biggest and most important bands in the history of black metal. If some of your favourite black metal bands don?t get featured... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com