Album Review: Deafheaven – “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love”

Black metal is a genre that appears more repugnant than most to outsiders who (gratefully) exist outside of its cult – a quick look at the Wikipedia page lets us know as much as we would ever need to know…

From the Record Crate: Darkthrone – “A Blaze in the Northern Sky” (1992)

In the prologue to the Spanish translation of Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s book Lords of Chaos, writer Javier Calvo calls Norwegian black metal “the last European avant-garde”. However uncomfortable that statement may be, he makes a compelling point: The…