Behemoth frontman Adam Darski, also known as “Nergal” is suing Ryszard Nowak, the head of the All Polish Committee For Defense Against Sects . Nergal claims that slander was committed against him by Nowak in an interview where Nowak calls him a criminal, according to Metal Portal.
Metal has a reputation for being anti-Christian and bands keep that reputation alive…for some reason. Nothing better to write songs about I guess. It’s a trend in metal that has never died. I guess it’s a way for metal bands to connect with fans. Christians are portrayed as hypocrites, pushing their beliefs on …read more

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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?

I found some irony today when I went to check a few things. My last post before my computer died saturday was the Dimebag memorial post, which also happened to be post #666 for me on Metal Martyr.
The only conlclusion that I can come up with is that Satan himself possesed my laptop and inadvertantly…killed my computer. Damn it Beelzabiatch! Now I’m back up and running, taking a bit to get used to Vista. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass some times but other times it’s really cool. Kinda like the transition to XP the first time, …read more

This is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen. Heavy metal has ruined the world…and rap helped too. I have not seen anything this ridiculous since Refer Madness. Metal Hammer posted this news about an Iranian television report about satanism and the heavy metal scene in Iran. Read the article below to get yourself warmed up then click on the link and view the video.
Confusing report about ’satanism’ from Channel 2
Channel 2 aired a report on the heavy metal music scene in Tehran. According to the report, “Devil worship originated in England in the 19th century. It is supported …read more

Moving forward to the eighties, heavy metal spawned many “Satanic” bands into popularity. Venom, Slayer, Merciful Fate, the whole nine. These days there is still a slew of Satanic bands but lets face it, 97% of it is gimmick. The other 3% is those crazy black metal Scandinavian bands; they take their devil music seriously!!
Writing songs these days isn’t easy because after all what is there to write that hasn’t already been written about. If you lived a good life and you don’t want to be a poser you don’t write songs about how hard your life was growing up. …read more

Devil Music: Satan Sells…But Who’s Buying?
As we all know when you ask the average person off the street what the first thing they think of when you say the words “Heavy Metal”, they will tell you “Devil Music”. That’s what we expect from the ignorant, but ignorant or not it is what a lot of heavy metal has been based around for a long time.
This didn’t all start with heavy metal contrary to what everyone wants to believe. The devil in music dates far back to the early days of the blues when Robert Johnson a famous short-lived blues musician …read more