Scene and heard: Bleak metal

A new generation of black metal-influenced musicians is tempering the genre's bloodthirsty Viking charge with a frostbitten ambience. Call it Music for Mausoleums ...For a music reportedly of cult – or, if you know the parlance, "kvlt" – appeal, black metal has proven itself remarkably adaptable. In fact, since its birth (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1982) and troublesome adolescence spent setting fire to Norwegian churches, the genre has been slowly seeping into unexpected areas of the main...

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