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• Portugal’s Concert Scene, Part Two: What Already Works Somewhere Else The first piece closed with a promise: look at what other countries have actually built, not just on paper but in the real world, and ask why none of it has…
• DESTRÖYER 666, GOSPEL OF THE HORNS, BESTIAL WARLUST, BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, IMPALED NAZARENE, MOTÖRHEAD, SADISTIK EXEKUTION, ABOMINATOR, ATOMIZER, IRREPARABLE, SCARS OF SODOM, EREBUS ENTHRONED, BLACK SILENCE, RUINS, SATYRICON, CELTIC FROST, IMMORTAL, PIG DESTROYER, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, ABSU, PORTAL, GOATWHORE, IMPIETY, STRIBORG, THRALL, PLOUGHSHARE, NEKRASOV, VAHRZAW, PAROXYSMAL DESCENT, MISERY, ASTRIAAL, ELYSIAN BLAZE, INFECTED, EPITAPH Isolation Within Isolation: Mapping Australia’s Hidden Black Metal Geography The standard story about Australian black metal is familiar to anyone who has spent time in the genre. Australia sits so far from everywhere else that,…
• AC/DC AC/DC: Berlin, 1999, and Everything After Most people know the myth version of AC/DC: the biggest riffs, the biggest sales, the legend that never dies. That version is not false, but it misses almost…
• Beherit Not Norway's Little Brother — Finnish Black Metal and Beherit Finland has its own black metal roots, much deeper than most people think. Beherit is a big part of that story. Everyone talks about Norway when it comes to…
• Primigenium, Ouija, Cryfemal, Foscor, Xerión, Kathaarsys, Dantalion, Balmog Galicia and the Rest — Spanish Black Metal in the '00s Spanish black metal in the '00s got some attention, but most people ignored what was actually happening or just got it wrong. So here’s my attempt to actually…
• Castrum, Datura, Etsykh, Soulrest, Обрій, The Symbioz, Skruta, Displease, Necrom, Fleshgore, Mental Demise, Ambivalence, Endocranial, Deflected Sense, Phantasmagory, Infected, Rattenfänger, 1914, Lutomysl Thirty Years Underground — Ukrainian Death Metal If you know Ukrainian metal, you probably know the black metal side first. That's where the spotlight landed: Kharkiv, the mid-1990s, the bands that became…