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10 Things ‘Lords Of Chaos’ Got Right And Wrong About Black Metal

August 10, 2020 10:05am

There’s no more definitive retelling of the violent, terrifying, and musically fertile second wave of black metal in Norway than Lords of Chaos, Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderland’s 1998 oral history. Last year, the true-crime […]

See Norwegian Black-Metal Pioneers Mayhem’s First-Ever Music Video “Falsified and Hated”

November 7, 2019 6:03pm

Notorious Norwegian black-metal outfit Mayhem were formed in 1984 and have been active since, other than the one year following the headline-making murder of the group’s founder Euronymous by Burzum mastermind Varg Vikernes, who was […]

Mayhem’s Necrobutcher: I Was on My Way to Kill Euronymous

October 16, 2019 12:48pm

It’s one of extreme metal’s most infamous and often repeated stories: In 1993, Norwegian black-metal pioneers Mayhem’s 25-year-old founding guitarist Øystein Aarseth, a.k.a. Euronymous, was stabbed to death by Burzum mastermind and his Mayhem bandmate […]

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