It also strives to answer the question of why people are attracted to this type of extreme music, and does a fairly good job of answering that question along with posing a few more questions in the long run?

Moynihan stated that it was a simple case of intimidation stemming from his correspondence with Charles Manson and visits to Sandra Good. It profiles a number of the prime movers in the Norwegian black metal scene, and has an amazing number of interesting photographs and illustrations that provide tremendous depth of detail into the subjects at hand. This exhaustive, near-academic look at metal’s satanic underground simultaneously traces the Devil’s ascent through rock history and provide cultural antecedents for music-related violence and paganism.Euronymous is murdered by Burzum front-man Varg Vikernes aka Count Grishnakh (yes, from The Lord of the Rings. I really enjoyed reading perspectives from Ihsahn and Ulver, and some of the outside sources were interesting as well.

I already knew these guys were nuts from the things I've read and heard over the last 30 years, but I never heard the full story with all the details of the things that happened in between.Moynihan collaborated with Boyd Rice from 1989, and in 1990 the two moved into an apartment in Denver. relating to the possibility of 'ancient forces' having an impact of the rise of blackmetal) All in all, you can't go wrong here. Filth claims the existence of a "Satanic Gestapo", when he recounts an incident where he was apparently attacked on stage with a knife (which he states may have been a prop) during a concert in Germany.

Sin embargo, el resto son reflexiones de personajes de diversos orígenes y estratos sociales que nada aportan a la historia contada inicialmente y simplemente dan vueltas y más vueltas a los mismos hechos. I think that goes to show that the theory that violent films and horror films are to blame because they desensitize people to violence may not be as much as the story as some people want it to be.And the book is well conceived, digging past the hype around the genre's Satanism to excavate the paganism, conspiracy theory, and radical right-wing idiocy that underlies so much of the genre's culture.

The book is very well thought-out, and does not merely report on the bands, but the real people involved in them; their thoughts, their frustrations, their goals and their dreams. There is interesting stuff in here, both in seeing into Vikerness’ mind and his views on reviving the old Norse religions, but it just goes on too long. It is rebellion taken to its natural conclusion … destruction for its own sake, an adrenalized nihilism that revels in every toppled steeple. You have intelligent, well educated teens, angry and alienated, who create a fantasy world of sorts and lash out with violence at their peers and surroundings.

or perhaps it's a sociological deconstruction based on a true crime story with black metal for its background source. Well, it's entirely possible that the uniformly divisive reception the book received amongst black metal musicians themselves has impressed upon later authors a specific consideration: the futility of attempting to sum up Norwegian black metal as having much more than geography and a few 80s metal influences in common.