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ACTIVE: 1993- The Kovenant is an industrial (black) metal band from Norway. And they are awesome! They started as a symphonic black metal band but slowly transitioned toward an industrial sound. I’m not a fan of their black metal era myself — the album that got my attention was their 1999 release, Animatronic. At the …
ZOS KIA CULTUS (CENTURY MEDIA, 2002) This kick ass a song appears on Behemoth‘s sixth album, Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond). This is the first album I heard from Behemoth. As Above So Below is a phrase tracing back to the Emerald Tablet, a Hermetic text from around 2,000 years ago. It’s a core …
COME OUT AND PLAY (ATLANTIC, 1985) This is a song by Twisted Sister from their fourth album, Come Out and Play. As I briefly explained, this album happens to be the one that introduced me to graffiti — not Subway Art or any of the early ’80s hip-hop movies. So of course, I wanted to …
THE PUPPET MASTER (MASSACRE, 2003) This is the eleventh album by King Diamond — and it’s also the name of the second track from this very release. Of all the albums by the band, this one falls into my personal top three, alongside The Eye and House of God being the other two. And, as …
ACTIVE: 2015- King Satan is an industrial metal band from Tampere, Finland. Despite the genre, they combine various elements in their music, from death metal to blues rock to aggrotech. It’s pretty hard to describe, so it’s better to give ’em a listen and judge by yourselves. I’d say they share many similarities with Rob …
ACTIVE: 1985- Kim Bendix Petersen is a Danish rock musician and singer who used the stage name King Diamond years before he formed the band with the same name. This happened right after he left Mercyful Fate (only to revive it a few years later). Many might argue that there’s a huge difference between these …
PSALM 69 (SIRE RECORDS, 1992) Jesus Built My Hotrod is a song by Ministry, an American industrial metal band. The song was released as a single in 1991, but it also appears on their fifth studio album, Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, which came out the following year. …
MIDIAN (MUSIC FOR NATIONS, 2002) This is the sixth track from Midian — by far the best Cradle of Filth album, if you ask me. I find it really hard to pinpoint the highlight of this album, since it’s one of those releases where everything rules! So I made a few sketches based on it, …
ACTIVE: 1991- Cradle of Filth is an extreme metal band from the UK. They’ve been around since the early nineties, but I discovered them — and fell in love — with their 2000 release, Midian. Their lyrical themes are heavily influenced by Gothic literature, poetry, mythology, and horror films. Midian, for example, got its name …
ACTIVE: 1981- Ministry is an American industrial metal band. They’ve been around forever — and they’re really damn good! Like probably many of my age, I discovered the band in 1992, just after they’d released the Psalm 69 album. The N.W.O. video was in heavy rotation on MTV, and you just couldn’t miss the song …