Los Angeles – There’s really no point in rehashing Deafheaven’s controversial status among the pantheon of “black metal” bands; that conversation has been had a million times over, a ubiquitous addition to every review, interview, or feature on the San Francisco-based band. Listening to metal fans talk about Deafheaven is a perfect lesson in confirmation
New York – Liturgy was a different sort of metal band from the start, when their debut album Renihilation came out in 2009. Renihilation sounded like a black metal album, with its witch’s howl screaming and torrential tremolo guitars and shotgun-blast drumming, but there was something else happening as well; it sounded transcendent, like someone
Seattle’s five-piece Black/Thrash Metal band Black Breath has recently announced their first European tour since forming in 2005. Their rush onto the international scene has a lot to do with the outstanding success of their 2008 EP Razor to Oblivion, which alternated between sounding like1990’s-era early black metal (alla Bathory) and, sporadically, punk—especially in its