“The band called The Black Satans was born in the summer of 2005 when Klitors, Heijargh and Naamosh were on a cruise ship. The guys got a glorious drunken idea to form a true Norwegian black metal band. Years went by, and the band hardly progressed at all. Later Masturbørg joined the band because of pity and he became the singing and dancing vocalist of The Black Satans. Still very little was done to advance the band. Then, in the late 2008 the Black Satans sold their souls to Timo Tolkki in order to get this piece of shit done. This is true Norwegian black metal from Finland. The Black Satans.”

[via: Aquadrunkard]

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Bravewords.com reports that Black Metallers Immortal are about to start recording a new album. I’m not really one to look forward to new Black Metal on a regular basis but this is actually one of the bands that got me into liking some black metal. They report that Immortal’s management has issued the following:

“The band has started to record the upcoming album! They will be working in both Grieghallen and Abyss studios this time.”

Should be interesting…

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First to Gorgoroth: Original Gorgoroth guitarist, Infernus has won the court battle for rights to the name.  The Norwegian court deemed King Ov Hell’s Gorgoroth name patent invalid. I don’t know how the rest works, but I assume Infernus will ensure that he has exclusive trademark property of the name. Let me catch you up to speed on this whole drama case.

• Infernus starts Gorgoroth in 1992.
• Gaahl comes on as vocalist in 1998
• King Ov Hell comes on Bass in 1999
• In 2007 things started to get shaky and Gaahl and King tried to fire Infernus, and register a trademark patent for the name behind Infernus’s back.
• Infernus claims the trademark patent is illegal and takes them to court
• Norwegian courts deem the patent invalid and it looks like Gaahl and King Ov Hell will have to find another name to go by.

Varg Vikernes: If you’re really in to Black metal then you probably already know the story behind Varg Vikernes of Burzum murdering Mayhem guitarist Euronymous in 1993. Some say it was self defense, but who really knows besides the two involved and one can’t tell his side of the story. He’s also been suspected of church burning in Norway.

Varg was serving a 21 year sentence for the murder and it was announced on March 10th that he has been approved for parole and will be release soon. He served 16 years of the sentence and was denied parole 4 times. During this 16 years he has been allowed to leave the prison and have conjugal visits with his wife of whom he has a baby with. Varg also has a 16 year old daughter.

Does this mean that Varg, or Kristian Larsson Vikernes as his family knows him, will continue Burzum? Varg claims that he is settling on his farm in Telemark with his family, but hasn’t entirely ruled out music.

“I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books and be with the wife and kids around the clock — and live a normal life. I have received tremendous support from my family. It means a lot.”

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That’s kind of a stupid question and I think we all know the answer, right? I mean there have been posers since the beginning and there are always people that want to be a part of what is deemed “cool” at the moment, but it seems things have changed since I was younger. It wasn’t “cool” to like heavy metal when I was in high school. It wasn’t cool to wear a metal T-shirts with profanity or gore on it and it wasn’t cool to like much of anything but top 40 crap. If you liked metal music or wore anything that even remotely looked “metal”, then you were a social minority.

Granted some people in the scene are still classified as outcasts, but there are a millions kids out there today that are jumping on the bandwagon because it’s what is cool at the time. You think these same kids are going to be liking metal in 5 to 10 years? Probably not because I can guarantee that most of the bands they like will not be around after that. After that there will be a bunch of sleeved kids with gaping holes in their faces and tattoos running up their necks, wondering why they can’t find a job. People will often use the excuse that they “Outgrew” that kind of stuff, but metal isn’t something you outgrow. You outgrow clothes, you outgrow toys and you outgrow certain T.V. shows…but you don’t outgrow metal.

Here is an example of how stupid this trend has grown. Wikihow has an article on How To Start A Deathcore Band. I seriously hope this is a joke and I’m 99% sure it is. If you look closely towards the bottom after the “Tips”, in the “Warning” section it again says; “Don’t Be A Poser Fool“. If you’re looking online to find out how to start any band of any genre…then you’re a posing trend whore. I’m not hating on all the ‘core bands…just the ones that are started because it’s a trendy thing to do and they have no history or knowledge of bands in either of the combined genres they are emulating.

I’m just waiting on the day when there is a new genre called “Black-Deathcore”, when we start seeing bands on stage with baggy shorts down past their knees and half hanging off of their asses, with a flat brimmed hat, plugged ears, gauntlet arm bands and corpse paint. That’s going to be a sad day in metal.

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The Opeth Box contains

- 6xLP set of the following three albums:
The Orchid
Morningrise
My Arms Your Hearse

- Woodenbox with Opeth Logo and Album details printed/burned on it

- The first 200 coloured versions contain an exclusive special Opeth shirt designed by ??? (stay tuned)

- Coloured vinyl DIE HARD VERSION ltd.200

- Under exclusive license of Candlelight Records

The Immortal box includes

- 6xLP of the following 6 albums:
Diabolical Fullmoon
Pure Holocaust
Battles In The North
Blizzard Beasts
At The Heart Of Winter
Damned In Black

- White vinyl DIE HARD VERSION ltd.100

- Dark red vinyl DIE HARD VERSION ltd.200

- Woodenbox with Immortal Logo and Album details printed/burned on it

- Special Shirt design (maybe never seen before…?)

- Under exclusive license of Osmose Productions

Visit Viva Hate Records to reserve yours

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So you know that annoying song by Katy Perry about how she kissed a girl and liked it…and then claimed that she did it in college during her experimental days when she was drinking…that’s the excuse we always hear anyway. Enjoy the video and all of it’s parody splendor.I guess you can’t really call it Black Metal, but it’s still pretty funny.

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