Article submitted courtesy of Sawyer Hildebrandt. The world of black metal has seen its fair share of shakeups in recent years. Deafheaven’s 2013 full-length debut, Sunbather, ditched decades of strictly-defined sonic blueprints and bleak aesthetic in favor alt-rock tendencies and a pink album cover. In 2015, the one-woman black metal machine, Myrkur, further challenged the elitist stranglehold on the genre with her widely acclaimed debut, M (available now via Relapse Records). Equally indebted to Mayhem as she is to Mozart, […]