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Old 05-11-2015, 06:53 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Black Metal didn't really turn the metal world upside down in a short period of time. It's only really become popular recently... say 2010 at the earliest, and I'd wager that has less to do with the events in Norway than renewed popular interest in groups like The Swans and My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth, who are stylistically close enough to your Det Som Engar Var's that people who favored those non-metal groups had their interest pique. Further, black metal musicians do not exist in a vacuum, so this increased popularity of said groups affected their output, so you have that...
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