If you're not familiar with the black metal psychonauts in Oranssi Pazuzu, allow us to introduce you. The band formed in Finland in 2007, cutting four wildly different, exploratory studio albums since ...

The weather actually felt like autumn for the first time this year. A pretty heavy rain had only recently stopped, leaving the sidewalks around the Philly club a mess of soaked, amber-colored leaves ...

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Finnish psychedelic black metal band Oranssi Pazuzu released two great albums in the past six years, but they haven’t toured this part of the world since before either of them came out. That will soon ...

Oranssi Pazuzu just dropped a new track at the perfect time. While most people across the globe are taking precautions to limit their exposure — and further spread — of coronavirus, the Finnish ...

Black metal has a long and notorious history: isolation, murder, Satanism, and even nationalism have been associated with some of its most infamous practitioners. The music itself is icy, dissonant, ...

What could be scarier than the deep cold of space? If the ‘black’ in black metal is emblematic of the anguish of emptiness, fear, and unavoidable death, then the nothingness that makes up the vast ...

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The world we’re living in is one gripped by fear and uncertainty. As the global pandemic continues its course and we remain confined to our homes, now, more than ever, we need to sink our psyches into ...

At the end of 2019, I wrote a feature for the Guardian explaining why I thought that Sunn O))) had created one of the defining sounds of the preceding decade, and how they had effectively helped ...

Their name aside, there's always been something different about Oranssi Pazuzu. Maybe they've always been too weird for most people to stomach. Mestarin Kynsi probably won't change many minds, since ...