“We Just Like Spikes and Screaming”: Russian Black Metal Bands Scramble to Prove They’re Not Part of the Totally-Real Satanist Cabal Just Banned by the Kremlin

In the wake of Russia’s Supreme Court officially banning the International Movement of Satanists — a shadowy, threatening group that absolutely no one can prove exists — panic has erupted in the nation’s thriving black metal underground. “We’ve never heard of this group,” insists Vladislav “CorpseRider” Sokolov, frontman of GoatWarlock666, […]