Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes -- along with sociologists, police officers, theologians, and occult
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English Pages xviii, 405 pages: illustrations; 23 cm [357] Year 2003
Table of contents :
Preface to the new edition --
Preamble : into that darkness --
1. Sympathies for the devil --
2. Death metal dies, black metal arrives --
3. A blaze in the northern sky --
4. Mayhem in the dead zone --
5. Welcome to Hell --
6. Ashes --
7. Deathlike silences --
8. Count Quisling --
9. Resurgent atavism : the metaphysics of heathen black metal --
10. Their satanic majesties --
11. Furor teutonicus --
12. Lords of chaos --
13. Ragnarök --
Appendices --
I. "We lit the fires / Finn Bjørn Toønder --
II. "Oskorei" / Kadmon --
III. "Satanism in Norway" / Simen Midgaard.