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

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The book focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway in the early 1990s, with a focus on the string of church burnings and murders that occurred in the country around 1993.

This book is a must have for fans of the Norway scene, or anyone else interested in a shockingly good story. The best reference to recommend to you if you REALLY desire an exhaustive examination of black metal would be the massive Jon Kristiansen-authored “Slayer Diaries,” a 700-page reprinting of the complete run of his amateur underground fanzine with added biographical and background information included. relating to the possibility of 'ancient forces' having an impact of the rise of blackmetal) All in all, you can't go wrong here. That wasn't the case, of course; he was simply trying to sell books (although there are those who would argue differently).

The parts about the ‘Satanic panic’ in Norway had the potential to be interesting, but the material is stretched thin at 370 pages, and the authors get bogged down in the minutiae of the differences among a number of ‘philosophies’ (the differences between, for example, Anton LaVey’s idea of Satanism and some of the Norwegian black metal bands’ ideas of Satanism), each of which is equally stupid and undeserving of analysis. Moynihan may be on to something with Jung about a black metal world that was born not made already beneath their constructed black metal world of evil posturing and make up that pulls their fibers to what is underneath.

Speaking of dark and twisted reads, Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind’s Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground has everything: wacky Norwegians burning down churches to get back at Christians for stamping out Odin worship, murder, suicide, more than you ever wanted to know about the Norway vs.I'm reading this because I'm a music fanatic and fascinated by fanaticism and counterculture, not because I'm a Satanist OR a fan of black/death metal.

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. Their book is a sort of guide to the Norwegian black metal scene, where, the authors claim, this latest, more rebellious form of heavy metal music originated.In 1995, Moynihan released the first full length album by Blood Axis, The Gospel of Inhumanity and moved from Denver to Portland, Oregon where he became an editor at Feral House, a publishing company owned by Adam Parfrey. He was subsequently convicted of this crime and sentenced to 14 years in prison (of which he served nine before being released in 2003). 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. 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.

Whatever your musical or religious outlook, this book has the facts you need to understand what’s going on in Death Metal music. The murder of Euronymous happened before I even knew what black metal was but I was intrigued about it when I got older. The constant refrains along the lines of "we want evil, eliminate the Christian blight, we hate everyone, Varg is great/Varg's an idiot, Euronymous was a traitor, paganism, scorched earth for the Christians, blah blah" tends to be repeated a lot in the interview sections. I wanted to give this book four stars for a long time, but i changed to three, because there were anyway too many things that annoyed me to some extent.The 2003 edition of LORDS OF CHAOS is revised and expanded, adding fifty new pages, detailing outbreaks of Black Metal crime in Finland, Germany and the United States; and includes the secret history of occult Rock, a new section on Varg Vikernes' promulgation of bizarre Aryan UFO theories, and material on the career of Hendrik Mobus, an international neo-Nazi fugitive. Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind have authored one of the oddest true crime stories that I have ever read. Moynihan collaborated with Boyd Rice from 1989, and in 1990 the two moved into an apartment in Denver.

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