Blackstar means business with the HT-METAL, capitalising on endorsements with dudes such ... Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, playing them since 1990, and ...

A specialist musical style often requires a specialist’s instrument, and the EX Black Metal is just that, offering a stripped-down platform for high-gain riffing, ripping leads, and the honourable ...

That record does sound fairly traditional, and relies on black metal’s classic building blocks: shrieked vocals, barrages of ferocious blast beats, guitars buzzing like angry bees. Yet there is ...