Latest articles by Dayal Patterson
The unholy story of Cacophonous Records, the underground 90s label that changed black metal
Cacophonous Records launched Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir on an unsuspecting world
The death and resurrection of Hell, the occult metal pioneers that history forgot
How cult early 80s metallers Hell bounced back from tragedy nearly 30 years later
The chaotic story of Nihilist, Unleashed, Entombed and the bloody birth of Swedish death metal
Death metal began in the US - but the early 1990s Swedish scene gave it a run for its money
How Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their self-titled fourth album
The story of Killswitch Engage’s controversial self-titled album – released 15 years ago today
How Bring Me The Horizon changed the game and silenced the haters with There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret.
In 2010, BMTH released There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret. - the album that set them on the path to becoming one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands
“We were living with cockroaches, writing crazy concept albums and touring the planet”: how prog metal visionaries Voivod invented a whole new genre
Canadian prog metal icons Voivod released their classic second album Rrröööaaarrr on this day in 1986. Drummer Away looks back on a career like no other
Zakk Wylde: 10 albums that changed my life
The records that made the Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist the man he is
Meshuggah’s Destroy Erase Improve: the tech-metal masterpiece that reinvented noise
How Meshuggah’s second album Destroy Erase Improve changed the face of extreme metal
Famous Firsts: Amon Amarth‘s Johan Hegg on three day benders and blood-drenched drumkits
“We were stumbling drunk for three days”: Amon Amarth’s Viking warlord Johan Hegg on the events that shaped his life
The Top 10 best metal bands from Iceland
It may be the land of ice, snow and Bjork, but Iceland has a vibrant metal scene. These are the 10 bands keeping the Viking flame burning
10 essential proto-black metal albums
Diving back to the birth of black metal and the records that have stood the test of time.
The top 10 metal bands from Italy (that aren’t Lacuna Coil)
There's more to Italian metal than Cristina Scabbia and co
Darkthrone's Fenriz: 2016's most surprising metal celebrity?
We look back at when Darkthrone's Fenriz had fifteen minutes of mainstream fame as a politician and his band continued to confound expectations, not least their own, with 2016's Arctic Thunder
Hellfire and black metal: The story of 1349
An exclusive excerpt from Black Metal: Into The Abyss on Norwegian black metallers 1349
Gaahl steps away from his black metal roots in new album GastiR - Ghosts Invited
The black metal icon takes a turn for the unexpected with the new album from Gaahls Wyrd
Why Behemoth’s The Satanist is the greatest extreme metal album of the 21st century
Behemoth's masterpiece not only marked Nergal's return from the brink, it served as extreme metal's crowning achievement
Mayhem: Grand Declaration Of War (2018) album review
Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold
Rotting Christ: Their journey from anarchist punks to black metal pioneers
The story of Rotting Christ's beginnings in the Greek punk scene, taken from Dayal Patterson's new book Non Serviam: The Official Story Of Rotting Christ
The 40 best black metal albums ever
We celebrate over three decades of extreme music with an epic count down of the all-time best black metal albums
Marduk – Viktoria album review
Sweden’s black metal institution Marduk battles through the potshots with Viktoria
Septicflesh/Inquisition/Stalsarg at Underworld, London - live review
Not yet ratedBlack metal titans combine their forces
Horizon Ablaze - The Weight Of A Thousand Suns album review
Norwegian BM collective fail to match adventure to their ambition
