Kvelertak are about as Norwegian black metal as Refused was Swedish straight edge hardcore, which is to say only slightly. When listening to Kvelertak’s self-titled debut and Refused’s Shape of Punk to Come it’s obvious that they both came from their motherland’s prominant music scenes, Refused were once a typical Swedish SXE band and Kvelertak [...]

“The South will rise again.” A phrase I heard kicked around by borderline racists, good ol’ southern boys and those who just didn’t know any better all throughout my childhood in southern Virginia (and while we can argue about whether Virginia is really the South, but it really makes no difference to the person who [...]