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Ultimate-Guitar.com recently had the chance to interview Norwegian Black Metal Legends Mayhem. They talk mostly of musical taste and equipment used so don’t expect Satan to come up much or at all in this interview. These are very brief excerpts. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire interview.
UG: Do you feel it is necessary and also important to have a broad taste of various music genres in order to grow as a guitarist?

Repost from Nuclear Blast Newsletter:
Kolossus, the new album from Norwegian metallers KEEP OF KALESSIN, is available for streaming in its entirety at the band’s MySpace page. Due in Europe on June 6 and in North America on June 10, the CD will feature the following track listing:
01. Origin02. A New Empire’s Birth03. Against The Gods04. The Rising Sign05. Warmonger06. Escape The Union07. The Mark Of Power08. Kolossus09. Ascendant
In addition, Kolossus will include a BONUS DVD that will include live sets, album and band documentary, behind the scenes, and other killer material that only you’ll be able to watch by …read more

True Norwegian Black Metal By Peter Beste is a book to be released in May by Vice Books. Beste takes a look into the dark world of Black Metal, documenting this extreme metal Sub-genre and it’s roots. Visit Peterbeste.com for more info.
“In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. It’s roots stem from a heady blend of horror films, extreme heavy metal music, Satanism, pagan mythology, and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990’s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. What started …read more