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  • On top of that, it's also the launch event for the Japan Cuts festival of contemporary Japanese cinema and the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival, with black-metal band Vaura headlinging the zombie-themed afterparty.

    Asia Fantasias and Other Tales Steve Dollar 2011

  • Per Yngve Ohlin was his real-world name, and he fronted the influential black-metal band Mayhem.

    Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Until The Light Takes Us’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • Opening act Liturgy, a band from Brooklyn, plays black-metal, a deliberately messy and raw form of heavy metal with roots in the gloom of deep, dark Norwegian winters.

    Radio City Hosts a Queen, Terminal 5 Rings the Bells Andy Battaglia 2012

  • Postscript: In college, my friend Sam and I, under the influence of Lords of Chaos, flirted with the idea of forming a Native American black-metal band called Great Spirit, to adapt the animating and animist construct of black metal to its closest American analogue.

    A Movie Version Of Lords Of Chaos? | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Somehow or other, I listened to Burzum for years without ever making the connection between that guy who killed Euronymous and that black-metal band that mysteriously went all synth in the late 90s.

    Deathlike Silence | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Who knew black-metal would make me break me lurk-only policy and register to comment?

    Deathlike Silence | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Imagine if the Durruti Column were a black-metal band — dour, dark, spare yet somehow frenetic.

    No Clouds | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • At the same time, another guard spun the demanding farmer around back to front, touched her cranium with a small, black-metal marble in his hand, and she, too, collapsed.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • At the same time, another guard spun the demanding farmer around back to front, touched her cranium with a small, black-metal marble in his hand, and she, too, collapsed.

    REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

  • You have to enter through an enclosed, black-metal stairway that is none too attractive, leading to the second floor of the building.

    Club Lazzara Brooks of Sheffield 2007

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