The ever-present spectre of COVID may have prevented an in-person interview with Dayal Patterson, the celebrated rock and metal journalist and author of multiple publications under his Cult Never Dies label-slash-publishing house-slash-store-slash-imprint, following the release of the revised and expanded edition of his grimoire, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult. Nevertheless, a textual exchange gathered additional information surrounding this must-have primer to what is, in my entirely biased opinion, one of the most exciting genres in contemporary metal… That said, I put ten questions to Dayal and, as expected, ten considered answers. As the proud owner of signed copy #962 of the original Feral print of your book, I was admittedly a little shocked that you had such an extensively...