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  • METAL: At Wacken Metal Battle, ITCOM Crushed The Competition

    METAL: At Wacken Metal Battle, ITCOM Crushed The Competition

    Wacken Metal Battle, Iceland took place at Harpa Norðurljós on April 11, featuring performances by Aeterna, Röskun, Narthraal, In the Company of Men, Oni, Church House Creepers, Auðn, Ophidian I and The Vintage Caravan. After Aeterna opened the night like it was…

  • Mutilation, Right?

    Mutilation, Right?

    Ophidian I kick shit off with a frenzy of dizzying riffing and blasting brutality. Their music treads intricate paths of stunning technicality and succinct songwriting wrapped up in the blast furnace bellows of vocalist Ingó, who commands the stage like a flaxen-haired Franco.…

  • Black Metal Band Mutilation Rites Here! Playing A Show!

    Black Metal Band Mutilation Rites Here! Playing A Show!

    Riding off of the success of their second album, ‘Harbinger’, the Brooklyn-based filthy black metal band Mutilation Rites is finishing up its European tour with one last show at Húrra tonight. To celebrate what will undoubtedly be a kick ass concert, we…

  • “Oh, and FOKK YOU MATTI!!!!!” – Amsterdam Pt. 2

    IN THE COMPANY OF MEN As I arrive at Amsterdam to do the second part of the METAL NIGHT FROM THE BOWELS OF HELL (and stuff), I meet my compadre Sveinn Birkir who was reviewing part one. “Oh it was OK,” he…