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 ...

some would say it spawned the much more successful band below. Who knew the gargled-with-sandpaper voice of Xasthur's only member Malefic is actually a dude from San Diego named Scott. His logo is ...

Read the full letter below… This album, “Portal of Sorrow”, is the last Xasthur album, period. The honorable thing to do is to end the band and not hang around too long, like so many metal ...

Recording entirely on his own under the pseudonym Malefic and the “band” name of Xasthur, the California artist created dense, plodding black-metal tracks that, even in a subgenre known for ...

The return of a very, very un-black metal Xasthur. Xasthur ... premiered exclusively here at Metal Injection and is off the band's new record Subject to Change due out sometime this week (possibly ...

This logo manages to be less spindly ... In fact, some would say it spawned the much more successful band below. 1. Xasthur Who knew the gargled-with-sandpaper voice of Xasthur's only member ...

some would say it spawned the much more successful band below. Who knew the gargled-with-sandpaper voice of Xasthur’s only member Malefic is actually a dude from San Diego named Scott. His logo ...