Slated for a summer release, ‘Gehenna Gate’ is poised to push both the band’s artistic boundaries and its impact on the local Metal scene. If there were any justice in this world, the members of Lucis Absentia would’ve shown up to our interview drunk and/or hungover, with the stench of cheap beer, cheaper pizza and cigarettes still hanging from their all-denim outfits.
Category: Death-Metal
Metal Show Canceled Amid Threats
A Swedish heavy metal band scheduled to rock the Metro Operahouse in Oakland Saturday night didn’t even see the stage. Marianne Favro reports.
This New Black Metal Documentary Totally Misses the Point
Blackhearts opens with a bespectacled expert explaining to a group of schoolkids that black metal-the movement of souped-up teenage metal bands from the early ’90s that replaced MotA rhead’s booze-and-bike talk with Satan, forests and ice -has become part of mainstream culture in Norway. But in other countries, he explains, “black metal is still something obscure and exciting.”