Black Metal: An Editorial

The imagery and the sound are haunting and extreme. It is also sometimes beautiful in its own, dark way. If satanism isn’t your thing, a lot of the newer bands focus on things like paganism and even ecology. Some of them are just like listening to a horror movie. Try not to take it too seriously.

If you are a fan of other genres of extreme metal like thrash, death, or doom, well…you probably already listen to or have listened to black metal. If you haven’t: what are you even doing with your life?