Black metal has its share of legendary guitarists and, here, we go especially deep to name the subgenre's 11 best.

Mayhem, from left: Hellhammer (Jan Axel Blomberg ... The first person to turn up at the scene was the guitarist Oystein Aarseth, a.k.a. Euronymous, who posed Dead’s body to snap more dramatic ...

After the body of Dead was found by Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, it was rumored that he collected skull fragments from his late singer and sent them to fellow black metal bands whom he felt were ...

It’s surreal and it’s fucking great.” The 53-year-old Hungarian musician wasn’t familiar with Mayhem in the 1980s, when its founding guitarist, Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth ...

And Øystein Aarseth, aka slain Mayhem guitarist Euronymous, is winning! We got a lot of emails over the weekend about the poll; first Euronymous was at 26, then 6, then 2… and now he’s actually at #1.

“Mayhem” puts the lie to that idea ... she loads up the songs with juicy bass lines and squealing electric guitar as she cycles through a battery of kooky accents and vocal tics.