When black metal reached American shores in the early 90s, it started a movement of artists trying to re-create the chilling, nihilistic sounds of their Norwegian forefathers—and it didn’t get much ...

Common wisdom regarding metal bands is the more unintelligible the band name logo, the better the band. This is true for Alhambra, Calif.’s Xasthur, a one-man underground black metal band, whose ...

Critical success was a no-win situation with Xasthur: “basement black metal” is a hard thing for the uninitiated to get into, much less keep up with. It’s harsh, challenging, unlistenable, and is ...

Yesterday saw the release of 'All Reflections Drained' by lo-fi black metal act Xasthur. This double CD album, the second of which is outtakes and covers, is cased in a DVD digi-pack with hauntingly ...

The publicity for Scott Conner's new album as Xasthur shows him, probably for the first time, without black-metal corpse paint. He looks like any other regular Joe trying to look serious while wearing ...

Strange things are a foot in the bowels of hell: After more than a decade of eluding non-metal ears, Xasthur has stepped outside the extreme music tinderbox for his bone-rattling fifth album, ...