Greetings, my beautifully putrescent metal-addicted readers, and welcome to the lair where I shall be waiting every month to invite you to the latest issue of Pitch Black, your ultimate source for Alberta-bred hard rock and heavy metal, and all the latest details on your favourite bands visiting in our little corner in West.
Now you, my dear metalheads, you’ve stumbled across this publication in the midst of her infancy. Which – come to think of it – really is such a fabulous thing… We do have some goodies lurking in …

We Found the Body has been raising a ruckus on the Calgary circuit since 2007, and on March 20 the Alberta metallers released their debut six-song EP at a killer sell-out show at The Stetson, with comedian Jason Rouse and Calgary thrashers Kilyakai in tow.
Guitarist Denim Wentzell graciously let us in on a few of the curiosities we had about the five-piece modern tech metal act’s recording process:
You decided to record at the Beach. What was behind this decision?
We wanted to record at a studio that had great gear to …

An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the spring 2009 Metal Maidens shoot in Northern Alberta!
Photographs by Becca Stone, Pamela Porosky and Sherri Robertson.

Cradle of Filth and Satyricon