Dimmu Borgir’s The Grand Serpent Rising Tour kicked off on August 7 at The Palladium Times Square, and New York marked the occasion the only way it knows how. As the doors opened, the Times Square sky split open and dropped a full downpour, a cleansing for everyone waiting to get in. If you needed a sign that something significant was about to happen inside, this city provided one.
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Longtime Dimmu Borgir guitarist Galder (real name Thomas Rune Andersen) has announced he is leaving the band after twenty-three years. He intends to reactivate Old Man’s Child, which tours less than Dimmu. Galder posted on social media that his final show with the band was this weekend, headlining Dynamo Open Air in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (review coming to the site soon). Continue reading
A genre born of anger and extremity, Black Metal has always burned with a glorious and uniquely singular spirit. However, with such savage independence at its core, conflict and contradiction have never been too far away. As commonplace amongst its ranks as bizarre names and unintelligible band logos, bitter (and often silly) arguments have raged for decades about which individuals, acts, or sub-genres, are the most – and of course the least – worthy to fly its blackened flag. Continue reading