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  • Auðn

    Auðn

    From the anguished beauty of the bittersweet melodies and the dark, atmospheric, aura, to the stellar sound production and the vicious throat-tearing vocal delivery, Auðn’s self-titled debut album is altogether flawless. Black metal has no right to be this beautiful. It is…

  • Söngvar elds og óreiðu

    Söngvar elds og óreiðu

    A friend of mine once said to me, “You know, black metal is a lot cleverer than it thinks it is.” And while many black metalheads, in their quest to be the tr00est ov cvlt, would run for a mile at the…

  • Icelanders Don’t Care About Satan

    Icelanders Don’t Care About Satan

    Stulli and Gauti sit opposite me and sip their coffee. Black coffee. Stulli is in the midst of outlining the philosophy behind his band, Svartidauði (Black Death), one of Iceland’s more accomplished Black Metal bands of today. They are wearing all black.…