I often make the assumption that those of you who frequent this lightless cavern are "in the know", and indeed the content here i...

Just don't. When I initially heard of the potential for this movie, probably almost a decade ago now, I thought, "Oh, for fuck...

Snorre Ruch (Blackthorn), likely 1991-1992 Bård Eithun (Faust), likely 1991-1992 So here's where shit gets com...

Black metal is dead.  Dead forever.  May it rest in peace. This doesn't mean that Blackened Relics  is dead, of course.  I'm just ...

Below you'll find the text - with a few modifications - of an angry post I wrote four years ago after some encounters with shithead hip...

Soulside Journey -era group shot, probably ca. 1989-1990.  From L to R: Ivar Enger (Zephyrous), Ted Skjellum (Nocturno Culto), Hank A...

Dead (L) and Euronymous (R), 1990 or 1991, in the Kr åkstad house The interview featured here with both Mayhem's Euronymous ...

I'm back. Again, a solid year has elapsed since last I was active.  Again, Blackened Relics  will never die. Metal, and above all bl...

Impaled Nazarene: members unknown; date unknown One of the seminal war metal bands (to my ears) along with Blasphemy and fellow coun...

Avaëthre (Vordb) &  Këëtrëh, date unknown Belkètre is, at this point and for those who've been paying close attention, ...

Yeah.  It's been over a year since I posted anything new, huh? My fault.  In the meantime, for the record, I have  been updating the f...

At the outset of this project, I insisted on manually transcribing every interview I posted: this was the way it was done on the fan sites o...

  Unpure are (Encyclopedia Metallum says they're still active) an early(ish) group from Sweden whose earlier efforts have been largel...

When my laptop bit the dust back in March or April or whenever the Hell of last year, I was working on a transcription of a piece on Ital...

A new laptop means - at last - access to all of my materials, which furthermore means giant updates. I'm seriously itching to work on ...

I'm fully dedicated to this little blog.  However, I'm a busy man: I have multiple jobs, one of which involves running my own busine...

Yet another semi-forgotten gem: Funeral Winds. They were among the first fully-fledged "second-wave" black metal bands from t...

So Nåstrond and Ancient Rites are pretty cool, and I'll listen to either one of them any day; Germany's Ungod, on the other hand,...