num_pages: 208
description: In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called Black Metal has emerged in Norway. Its roots stem from a heady blend of horror movies heavy metal music Satanism Paganism and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990s members of this extremist underground committed murder burned down medieval wooden churches and desecrated graveyards. What started as juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods and the complete rejection of mainstream society.
language: English
title: True Norwegian Black Metal
publisher: Vice Books