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Hellhammer on why most black metal drummers irritate him
Jan Axel Blomberg talks drumming for 23 minutes and every second is worth it. The bit about black metal 'trueness' being invented by idiots is peak Hellhammer.
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RIFF POST 15 metal riffs every beginner should learn first
Fifteen riffs. Five minutes. Tabs on screen. From Sabbath to Annihilator, these are the riffs that turn a beginner into a metalhead with a guitar.
11 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Black Oak County. Misprint.
Danish hard rock that hits like a freight train and nobody outside Scandinavia is paying attention. Black Oak County's fourth album is the loudest argument for Denmark as a rock country.
11 Apr 2026
OPINION Support Acts Deserve Better Sound. Always.
The headliner sounds like god and the support sounds like a tin bucket. That's a choice, not a budget. And it's time we stopped pretending otherwise.
9 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Doodseskader. The Change Is Me.
A mate at the bar pushed Doodseskader into my hands. Two Belgians from Ghent making the heaviest, ugliest, most uncompromising sound coming out of Europe right now.
7 Apr 2026
OPINION This Week in Metal: April 7-13, 1987
Helloween dropped Future World, Headbangers Ball was days away, and a kid in Belgium packed his cassettes for university.
6 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Cult of Luna. Somewhere Along the Highway.
Umeå, 2006. Cult of Luna made a post-metal album so heavy it crushes you and so beautiful it breaks you. Twelve-minute tracks that earn every second.
6 Apr 2026
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