Always one to make the headlines, Gaahl (the former vocalist of controversial Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth) has now announced his retirement from metal. Gaahl recently confirmed rumours that ...

We've got the exclusive premiere of the new Gaahl's Wyrd track, "From the Spear." The second single from Gaahl's (Gorgoroth / God Seed) new band is a challenging and rhythmic piece of extreme metal ...

Back in August, we told you about how Gaahl - the controversial Trelldom vocalist and former front-man for Norwegian black metallers Gorgoroth - had retired from metal. This news came after a spree of ...

Gorgoroth are no strangers to controversy. Their exploits have branded the Norwegian stalwarts as black metal's bad boys and anyone who familiar with that scene knows that's no easy feat to accomplish ...

The recent casting of Kristian 'Gaahl' Espedal, the former frontman for Gorgoroth and God Seed, in a state-funded musical has stirred up controversy in Gaahl's Norwegian homeland because of comments ...

With the majority of its key protagonists operating under pseudonyms and layers of monochromatic face paint – not to mention working within a genre that is inherently esoteric, fiercely independent ...

Now that Lords Of Chaos, Feral House’s seminal (yes, seminal!) book on the Satanic origins and violent history of Norwegian black metal, has become a major motion picture, it’s time to welcome the ...

This past summer, Axl informed you guys that Gorgoroth frontman Gaahl was gay. I’m here to add that he is also one scary motherfucker. This five-part mini-doc is pretty basic when it comes to the ...

Of those metal musicians who have publicly come out of the closet as gay, one of the more interesting -- and, for some, unexpected -- was Gaahl, former frontman of Gorgoroth and, more recently, of his ...