The Black Market

All right, here's how all of this started. I don't know if I should start here, as I realize what I'm about to unleash will…

If you're reading this, it's either (a) July and nothing is going on, (b) other stories fell apart, or (c) I have died and my…

All right, nerds. Jenovavirus. Demo #1. Check this out:…

Back in January, our own Aaron Lariviere completed a true death metal triathlon, playing the full-length discographies of Immolation, Incantation, and Gorguts back-to-back-to-back over a…

When you're a metal god, people want to know about the time you lost your fingers. "One day, the person that would be sending me…

Picture this: I'm jamming Ulver's Nattens Madrigal as a winter storm whips around my headphones. Instead of burying the audio, the strong gales match the…

I've always wanted to be in a death metal band. Problem: I am an untalented, antisocial loser. So, a question has long simmered in the…

Welcome back. It's a new year. A fresh start. So, for the third installment of our 2018 wrap-up, we're going to be looking at...

At the time I’m writing this, an Encyclopaedia Metallum search turns up 15,896 releases in 2018. (It’s early, the trve number will probably exceed 2017’s…

First, some housekeeping. In place of what would have been November’s Black Market column, you are now (in early December) getting our TOP 10 METAL…

EXT. DETROIT OR WHEREVER IT DOESN'T MATTER -- NIGHT…

There's a lot going on in the beginning of Amorphis' "Black Winter Day." Sure, it's just a few seconds of some keyboard chords and a…

This is the final part of "The Curse Of The Velvet Unicorn." You can read the first part here.

How do you end up getting cursed by a unicorn? Well, the story is always a little different.

Henrik Drake, Ph.D., is a researcher at Linnaeus University. His name has appeared atop numerous papers this year with titles like "Incorporation of Metals into…