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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

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org Vikernes has said he would not use the term " Nazi" any longer as self-descriptor; however, the statement is ambiguous. I've been a fan of black metal for three years now, and although I've never really been into the "evil" satanic underground that the black metal bands used to get into, I still loved reading this book. This award-winning exposé features hundreds of rare photos and exclusive interrogations with priests, police officers, Satanists, and leaders of demonic bands who believe the greater evil spawns the greatest glory. He is involved in a long standing collaborative and romantic relationship with musician Annabel Lee, with whom he has fathered a child. The fact of this inheritance explains the truly amazing phenomena that certain motifs from myths and legends repeat themselves.

Moynihan identifies his background as entirely Northern European: Irish, English, Welsh, and German. Lords of Chaos … lets the genre’s more luminous personalities speak for themselves, stringing countless first-hand interviews into a seamless chronological narrative.These sins find themselves unfortunately aggrandized alongside a cruddy organizational structure, that is excessive in its usage of interviews, and could have strongly befitted from a strong pruning by a seasoned editor.

After the discussion on Varg and Neo-Nazism (which contains large segments of Varg being downright ridiculous), the book tries to focus beyond the initial crimes and scandals of the early 90s, looking at the way black metal has progressed in the world since. We currently offer a fantastic range of approximately 300,000 books from rare 19th century antiquarian books, to childhood favourites to the latest bestsellers. It's a truly amazing ride into a netherworld of Satanism and extreme music, where violence and aggression are rewarded and civilized society is reviled. After the introduction to the genre we get the now well trodden tale of Mayhem and the ‘Black Circle’ as put together based on reports from the time and interviews with many of those involved (those in a position to give interviews at least).

Mayhem intended to live out their Satanic image to the hilt, proving to all that they were no mere posers. The final section then purports to look at the scene around the world but more fixates on a series of increasingly horrific crimes supposedly linked with black metal but as they go on it becomes increasingly obvious these are more stories of mentally ill youngsters and fascist sympathisers than really anything much to do with the music side that becomes almost an afterthought — though I guess you could argue black metal as a whole suffers from this. If you read between the lines, you see a bunch of scrawny, insecure boys who stumbled upon a way to scare the crap out of their country, and beyond. Which is why they got so livid when Marduk laughed at their allegations that they were an NSBM band.

The only problem I have with this book is the new edition has devoted 16 pages to Varg Vikernes' theories on aliens and their connection to hitler clones. Sadly, though, in the big game of countercultural chicken that these mooks played, some landmark churches were destroyed and two people were killed. Be aware, however, that the NSBM scene is misrepresented as being something much bigger and more important than it actually is- very few black metal bands are involved with anything neo-Nazi. Not knowing much about them, mind, they strike me as poseurs who would want to attach themselves to the image of the "dangerous" Vikernes.If they had to have it be REAL then they are not the average Erik who kills Lara Croft over and over again in a depressive funk (I don't know what the average Erik is like). 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. Along with this we get brief excerpts of articles and interviews with others giving some context to Vikerness but again they never quite feel like they are used to denounce his views or point out the dangerousness of them satisfactorily while other members of the music scene interviewed, such as other convicted murderer Bard ‘Faust’ Eithun do little to add very much at all. 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.

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