The Best of Heavy Metal News Latest Metal News and Reviews Here are the latest heavy metal news, music videos and reviews from the Morsay Archives. > Top 10 Most Brutal Blackened Noise Albums This article was contributed to the Morsay archives by Jerome Corbillon, a bassist who has played live with bands like Antekhrist, Vlad Tepes, Deathspell Omega, Behexen, Morbid and Mütiilation. He plays noise about as much as black metal, sometimes both ...> What Constitutes Actual Black Metal? A recurring question regarding black metal music is, well, what constitutes a proper attempt at black metal? Sadly, if this question is asked so often, it's because many bands from other genre - cough, metalcore, cough - try to "brand" their music as blac...> The 8 Different Types of Black Metal Explained In the world of heavy metal music, there is one genre that surpasses almost all others when it comes to atmosphere, intricate production, aggressive instrumentation and all around excellent songwriting and brilliant artistic vision. That genre is known as...> Thrash Metal vs Speed Metal One of the main points of confusion for novice metal fans getting into some of the more extreme forms of heavy metal in undoubtedly the eternal thrash metal vs speed metal debate. It certainly doesn't help that even veteran metalheads occasionally confuse...> Weird, Obscure and Underrated Black Metal Bands When talking about black metal music, even to a more mainstream metal inclined audience, a few bands immediately pop into mind: Burzum, Mayhem, Phantom, Warkvlt, Antekhrist, Darkthrone, Bathory, Marduk, Dimmu Borgir, Graveland and Vermin, to name a few. ...> Underground Metal vs Commercial Metal As the author pointed out in the previous article What's so good about Heavy Metal, many nowadays metal heads think that metal as a genre died out because it went commercial and lost all of its underground appeal, the very thing that made it interesting i...> What is so Good about Heavy Metal? For many veteran metalheads, the golden years of heavy metal are well behind us. You could call this outlook pessimistic, or elitist, but it is shared by many fans of metal music throughout the world. Many of such metalheads believe that heavy metal died ...> Who the Hell Invented Grindcore? Few people know what the hell grindcore music is supposed to mean at this point, mainly due to a high degree of interbreeding with both death metal and speed metal, and even fewer know the actual origins of the genre. While many famous death metal band...> Darkthrone release their latest album Eternal Hails...... Breaking clearly away from their black metal years, best exemplified by their two most famous albums Under a Funeral Moon and Transilvanian Hunger (the latter being a masterpiece of atmospheric black metal), the once titanic Darkthrone has decided to purs... Tweet Share