Having spent decades waving off the possibility of Emperor ever recording a new album, frontman Ihsahn now says he is open to the idea. The Norwegian black metal heroes released four studio albums, ...

Venom gave black metal its name, Bathory wrote its original rulebook, and Mayhem announced it as heavy music’s most evil-sounding and dangerous movement. However, when it comes to sustaining the genre ...

Emperor put out four massively influential black metal (and progressive metal) albums starting with their 1994 debut In the Nightside Eclipse and ending with their entirely Ihsahn-composed 2001 effort ...

Black metal icons Emperor have maintained unwavering image in their entire existence as a band, which includes maintaining radio silence on studio releases since 2001’s Prometheus – The Discipline of ...

Ihsahn is still planning on doing more Ihsahn. "It kind of came to a very natural conclusion — in the sense that by the last… I eventually started writing more and more of the material, and by the ...

January 2018 is shaping up to be a gloriously evil month, packed with brilliantly dark black metal releases from such acts as Watain, Tribulation, Bleeding Gods and the Swedish Shining. Ergo, it ...