Tag: Black Metal
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Nietzsche, or perhaps not?
On the back cover of Bathory’s 1991 album Twilight Of The Gods, we find a quotation signed “Friedrich Nietzsche 1871”. Through releases such as this, Bathory had a major influence on the emergence of the Norwegian black metal scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is likely that many of those who listened…
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The land beyond the forests
On that day, April 8, 1991, in the house they rented in Krokstad outside Oslo, when Mayhem vocalist Per Yngve “Pelle/Dead” Ohlin (1969–1991), after attempting to take his own life with knives in the woods, put a shotgun to his face and pulled the trigger, he was wearing a white T-shirt that read “I love…
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From Kristian to Varg
Moynihan & Søderlind claim in the book Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, from 2003 (expanded edition of the first edition from 1998) that Burzum’s Kristian Vikernes changed his name to Varg Vikernes sometime between 1991 and 1992. It is this claim that I will examine in this article, and…
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The Black Metal Police
In the beginning, we were the music police. We could freeze out bands. Gylve Fenris «Fenriz» Nagell, Lydverket spesial: Black metal, 2003. My translation. Gylve Fenris “Fenriz” Nagell and Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum are sitting on opposite sides of the beige corner sofa in a simple cabin in Trysil. Ted has just lit up his…
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The Morbid Angel concert in 1991
In the history of Norwegian black metal, there are several concerts that stand out as particularly significant: the Dio concert at Drammenshallen in October 1984, Mayhem at Folkets Hus in Jessheim in February 1990, and Darkthrone and Satyricon at Rockefeller in April 1996. These are all significant because they defined the genre and cemented the…