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(TheBRHM.com) Running into fellow Black metalheads is always a surprise and a pleasure. It’s not so much that there are so few of us—we are legion—but actually coming across another Black person who enjoys the Sound of the Beast in person or even online can be a chance encounter. My ...

(TheBRHM.com) Hellhammer is the pre-Celtic Frost act that is cited as one of the influences on black metal. Established in 1982, the band delivered a mix of black metal, thrash, and doom metal with each of their tracks featuring at least two of these elements. What’s interesting about Hellhammer and ...

(TheBRHM.com) Like hip-hop, heavy metal has its own obscure bands in every subgenre. Unlike hip-hop, even if a band isn’t as popular as the more known names, they still get love because they may have been pioneers or were producing quality music during the peak of the genre’s popularity. Good ...

(TheBRHM.com) When I first started to frequent online heavy metal communities, one of the things that was constantly praised or focused on was the band demo. Now, I tend to focus on full-length releases and sometimes live albums, but demos were something I was never particularly big on. I won’t ...

(TheBRHM.com) While discussing demos and how Sodom’s Victims of Death got me to appreciate demo releases, Skelator and their Give Me Metal or Give Me Death came up as the other release that really helped. We’ll get around to Victims of Death as it’s a great demo but Give Me Metal ...

(TheBRHM.com) Listing a top five of anything is always hard but thrash legends Slayer is definitely a mid-lister on my top ten. This was the band that really made me a fan of thrash music. It—as well as Bathory and Hellhammer—were the next stage of speed metal in a similar ...