A little more than a year after breathing buoyant new life into the long vacant former downtown Moline library, Sound Conservatory is writing an ambitious new movement in its sprawling, surging score.

More than five years in the making, a deeply meaningful string-quartet record will be available to local music lovers five days before its world premiere.

The Deanery School of Music is entering a new movement in its score, with a new concert series and new director.

Black metal was born in Scandinavia more than three decades ago, the devilish creation of bored, angry, and misanthropic teenagers who sought to take the rawness of thrash and carry it to faster and more sinister extremes. Thirty-plus years later, the style is more popular than ever, but many bands have realized that reinventing the diabolical wheel is not enough.