Tag Archives: Myrkur

Myrkur participates in Amoeba’s ‘What’s in my Bag?’ series

Posted by on March 6, 2018

Myrkur’s been keeping herself busy while being on the road for the Decibel Magazine tour.  She recently managed to stop at Amoeba Music to participate in their What’s In My Bag? series. In the below clip, you will see her choices, which includes Goblin and Joan Baez. The artist also couldn’t resist adding another King Diamond […]

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Download Festival announces over 65 more additional bands to 2018 lineup

Posted by on January 29, 2018

  The UK’s Download Festival has expanded their 2018 line up by adding over 65 more bands to their previously announced headliners. And still even more bands are expected to be announced as well. Download takes place at Donnington Park June 8-10, 2018. Previously Announced Headliners Ozzy Osbourne Guns N’ Roses Avenged Sevenfold Marilyn Manson […]

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Metal Hammer reveal ‘100 Best Albums of 2017’

Posted by on December 15, 2017

Metal Hammer have unleashed their year-end list of 100 Best Albums of 2017 and this one, is filled with surprises. For starters, we were thrilled to see Vuur, the new project featuring ex-Gathering vocalist Anneke Van Giersbergen make the cut, as well as Battle Beast, Dragonforce, and Alice Cooper. However, it also includes Mastodon, Code […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/1: Robert Plant’s got the fire

Posted by on November 1, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive the chart information necessary to complete MBN last week, so I’m a week behind over here. Hope you all had a happy and metal Halloween.   Notable Debuts:  Robert Plant, […]

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2018 Decibel Magazine Tour to include Enslaved, Wolves in the Throne Room, Myrkur, and Khemmis

Posted by on October 25, 2017

The Decibel Magazine Tour has packaged extreme music to concertgoers since its launch back in 2012. It was just last year when we saw Kreator and the year prior they brought Abbath on the bill. The unique combination with dark and extreme bundles will continue next year with Enslaved set as the headliners for the […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/8: Marilyn Manson has a heavenly debut

Posted by on October 18, 2017

Sometimes it’s awkward to write about album sales in 2017, specifically when it comes to bands and artists with longstanding careers. You have to put out qualifiers like “it’s a good debut but it’s nowhere near their best.” Take Marilyn Manson for example: he’s our to debut this week with 32,000 copies sold. Now, that’s […]

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Metal by Numbers 10/11: Primus are Primed

Posted by on October 11, 2017

Hello, Matt Brown here returning to bring you the charts once again. Well, mostly. It’s another week where we’ve only got sales numbers to display. But good lord do we have along list of debuts, fifteen to be exact. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that with less than three months to […]

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Metal by Numbers 9/27: Foos, Nothing More, The Contortionist debut high

Posted by on September 28, 2017

There’s been some debate about whether or not we should include Foo Fighters in Metal by Numbers. Are they metal? No, and we’re pretty sure they’d be the first to tell you that. However, Dave Grohl was responsible for his solo project Probot, which featured everyone from Max Cavalera and Lee Dorrian to Wino and […]

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Watch Myrkur reinvent King Diamond’s “Welcome Home”

Posted by on August 31, 2017

The multi-talented Myrkur recently showed us her dark and light side, both leading to her upcoming album Mareridt, which will be released on September 15th via Relapse Records. However, after seeing a brand new clip via the newly-relaunched Revolver, she could almost be mistaken for Tori Amos. Essentially, there’s nothing she can’t do as she continues […]

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Myrkur unleashes cover of Nordic folk song “De Tre Piker”

Posted by on August 23, 2017

Myrkur has already unleashed a few new songs taken from her upcoming album Mareridt, which will be released on September 15th via Relapse Records. We have heard quite a few different styles already with tracks “Shadows of Silence,” “Ulvinde,” and “Maneblot.” Today (23), the multi-talented artist turned a traditional Nordic folk song entitled “De Tre […]

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