black metal – What is Best in Life

The racist roots of the New Wave of Anti-Islamic Black Metal

isley.unruh / March 13, 2017

No heavy metal sub-genre positions itself more firmly in opposition to Christianity than black metal–most famously seen in the wave of church […]

isley.unruh / November 15, 2015

The early German black metal scene was about as underground as it got in the mid-nineties (at least until Lords […]

isley.unruh / August 15, 2015

As my tastes in black metal have (de)evolved over the years, I have realized that there is definitely a certain […]

Aspersions have been cast, in my general direction, regarding the content of this feature. SOME have claimed that the word […]

isley.unruh / March 15, 2015

Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt is one of those albums that tends to get overlooked because it came about 6 years too […]

isley.unruh / February 15, 2015

I may joke about Xasthur making the same album over and over again, and that may also be entirely true, […]

isley.unruh / November 15, 2014

Kampfar is one of those second wave Norwegian black metal bands that I thought I was totally over. The kind […]

isley.unruh / September 29, 2014

Welcome back to my most infrequently occurring Monday feature! I’m speaking, of course, of Infrequently Occurring Fifth Monday (IO5M), where […]

isley.unruh / September 15, 2014

1989 was a pretty brutal year for extreme metal. Grindcore and death metal had finally used the knowledge culled from […]

isley.unruh / August 15, 2014

Inquisition is one of those 3rd (4th?) wave black metal bands from the early 2000s that I missed during my […]