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Grapevine Music Awards 2020: Album Of The Year – ‘Sermon’ By Une Misère
2019 was a banner year for metal quintet Une Misère. Record label Nuclear Blast signed them in January, the same month they released their first single ‘Damages.’ In November, they dropped their debut album ‘Sermon,’ which found its way onto essentially every…
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Ragnarök Isn’t Here Yet
On the edge of a break, Skálmöld guitarist Þráinn reflects on an eventful decade At the start of 2020, after ten wildly successful years in the limelight, the infamous Icelandic metal band Skálmöld (meaning ‘Age Of The Sword’) will rest for an…
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Making Of An Artist: Rotting Meat, Folk Songs, & Darkthrone With Tómas Ísdal
Tómas Ísdal could easily be called the backbone of Icelandic black metal. In addition to co-owning Vánagandr—Iceland’s black metal cassette label—Tómas himself plays guitar, bass, or drums in Naðra, Misþyrming, Carpe Noctem, 0, Grafir, Nornahetta, and a host of other acts, so…