WATAIN Unveils New Perfume — Fans Immediately Hospitalized

It was only a matter of time. After years of bathing audiences in the fragrant mist of defibrinated pig’s blood and vintage goat essence, Swedish black metal purveyors WATAIN have finally entered the fragrance industry — and the results are as evil as they smell. The band announced their new […]

“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, […]