Clichés be damned -- this really was a good year for metal. I had a harder time organizing a Top 10 in 2010 than ever before. Ditto the Top 20. It was such a good year that I went overboard and…   Read Story »

Unless Agalloch give me a call, I'm taking a break from organizing Haunting The Chapel shows for a few months -- after the Swans @ Masonic Temple sell out, freezing Halloween event with Krieg and…   Read Story »

Watain's Sworn To The Dark was my favorite album of 2007. The trio's followup Lawless Darkness is a different black metal monster that hasn't hit me as immediately or as totally. I'm not really…   Read Story »

Varg Vikernes -- who I spoke with a couple of weeks ago -- gets the bulk of the Norwegian-related black metal press, but for my kroner, Gylve Fenris Nagell, Darkthrone vocalist/lyricist/drummer/etc…   Read Story »