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share: digg facebook twitter The New York band So Hideous, My Love...breach traditional black metal ethos by moving into the controversial "post-" territory, their group name sounds like a screamo fan's tossed-off moniker for their fantasy band, and their mixture of hard sounds with florid string orchestration edges them closer to commercial hard rock bands like Evanescence than dyed in the wool ...

Tourism chiefs who carried out an internet poll to find Suffolk's most iconic image were embarrassed to find that most votes were cast for the lead singer of black metal band Cradle of Filth.

Jesus is metal A Church of England vicar has told the Anglican community that it could do worse than learning to relax and taking a few cues from heavy metal.…

Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the leading summer open air heavy metal music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 70,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal, death metal, power metal, thrash metal, gothic metal and folk metal, from around the world. ... read the rest of WACKEN OPEN AIR 2009 ... De

It takes a lot of balls to put the music you play right in your name: sometimes it works (see: Death) and sometimes it doesn’t (see: the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, which confusingly decides not to include the black metal band with whom they share a name in its roster year after year, or even Methods of Mayhem). Novembers Doom claim ownership of the necessary balls, though: they’re slow, menacing, classy doom metal with a well-integrated melodeth twist, managing to pique interest even in their mos