halloween

OPETH- Blackwater Park

NEVERMORE

Totenritual is a good record, but I like Conjuring the dead better. Great live act.

Rotting Christ - the 4 horseman

From the interviews that I've heard with Eric from WATAIN and Dagon from INQUISITION, both bands embrace the ideology of "satanism" and it's a huge part of what they try to convey through their music.As for BEHEMOTH, they put out fucking awesome records, one after the other. NERGAL has had a lot of shit thrown at him for living in Poland. They might not be "true satanists", just anti-catholics". Good enough for me. If there's one band that used SATAN as an image to make money. it's SLAYER. Tom arraya is a practicing catholic and didn't feel comfortable with some of Kerry kings lyrics as he got older. Only in america can you get rich pretending to worship SATAN.

Drugs or alcohol, it has to be one or the other.

Rotting christ

Does anyone else have any confidence that we'll be able to go to live shows anytime soon? Here in the US, I'm starting to have my doubts. I'm wondering how these movie theaters and music venues are going to stay in business after all of this. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of them will never re-open. How bad is it in Europe and the UK? A lot of bands are probably never going to come back. This really sucks!

RASKOL-Batushka

Music has been a huge part of my life, always will be. This may sound kind of weird, but listening to black metal makes me happy and helps me get through the day. It's supposed to be depressing and cold, but it makes me smile just writing this while listening to some INQUISITION . Next up will probably be WATAIN.

Lantern - below

Should TESTAMENT have been in the big 4 in stead of anthrax? I have always been less than impressed by their music. I think it should have been METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER , and TESTAMENT. It just sounds better.

Rituals - rotting christ

I'd like to hear other's opinions on the band NEVERMORE and specifically your opinions on their now late vocalist WARREL DANE. Any body else miss them?

Triumph

What band would you want to see first when we can finally go to a live show?

Bloodshed across the empyrean altar beyond the celestial zenith by Inquisition.

Codex omega - septic flesh

Sworn to the dark by watain

Rotting christ or septic flesh, and why?

Most of us collect something, coins, stamps, old cars, something that we appreciate. What do you like to collect? I have been collecting concert shirts and keeping my ticket stubs from shows. I just went through my sock drawer and found all of my tickets from the 80's and 90's. Made me feel really old. I saw an interview with nergal recently where he talked about collecting old concert shirts and about buying them as works of art. That's one of the reasons why I've collected them my self. I still have the shirt that I bought at my first concert, rush's 1980 permanent waves tour. I have been collecting them ever since, for over 40 years. My collection is between 150-200 shirts. Yes they take up a lot of closet -space, but my wife is okay with it. Yes I still wear most of them,but the really old ones are put away in the garage. I still get a kick out of wearing an old shirt to a show and people always ask if it's real. when I tell them yes ,I always get a compliment. The secret to making them last so long is simple, NEVER put them in the dryer. Hang them up to air-dry and they'll last for decades.

Black water park by opeth.

Just how many black-metal bands out there do you think are "true" to their satanic beliefs? How many of them just do it for the imagery ,and like slayer, did it for the money? The only 3 "successful" bands I believe are "true" to their beliefs are behemoth ,watain, and inquisition.

I have been a lover of horror literature and movies my entire life. I prefer the older movies (universal,hammer,american intl.) ,but two of the best horror movies since the exorcist are " the witch and hereditary".I am also a huge fan of h.p. lovecraft. If you want an introduction to a different kind of horror literature, start with him.

Batushka "litourgiya"