Lords of chaos. La storia insanguinata del metal satanico

Okay. I'm reading this because I'm a music fanatic and fascinated by fanaticism and counterculture, not because I'm a Satanist OR a fan of black/death metal. That said, this book is hilarious. If you read between the lines, you see a bunch of scrawny, insecure boys who stumbled upon a way to scare t Leggi tutto

I've been looking forward to reading this for years, and only just got round to it. I think it's fair to say I got more pleasure out of the looking forward to than I did from actually reading it. The prose and editing are as bad as you'd expect in a Feral House book; I feel quite comfortable saying

I wanted to give this book four stars for a long time, but i changed to three, because there were anyway too many things that annoyed me to some extent. Let me start with explaining myself. I have gotten very much into Black Metal lately and although I already listened to Satyricon ten years ago, I

Lords of Chaos is an extremely irresponsible book. Originally published in 1998, and revised in 2003, as it stands, this book borders on the dangerous. Oftentimes meandering, occasionally bafflingly tangential, and criminally uncontested, this book needs revision and extension in 2022 or a sequel th Leggi tutto

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This book came out just as I was beginning to explore the black metal musical genre, and it served as a kind of guide and context for my embrace of a new sound. In retrospect, it's probably not as "perfect" as my five-star rating would imply, but its impact on my life cannot be ignored. What Moyniha Leggi tutto

In the mid-1990s Norway was scandalized by a series of church arsons. The true nature of the crimes became a media sensation when it was revealed that a number of native black metal musicians were tied to the crime spree. Murders soon followed arson as the crimes became even more bizarre and shockin Leggi tutto