Tag: Vikernes
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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 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…