Chula Vista

How did this all go down? I'm a total newbie to this genre but find it amazing that so few bands from such a remote location turned the metal world upside down in such a short period of time.

Any insight on this would be appreciated.

(was it really all about nothing more than extreme revolt and burning churches?)

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Until the Light Takes us is a great documentary on the scene that you'd probably enjoy.

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Chula Vista

Frown: This is the vocalist I was trying to remember last night.



They sound eerily similar IMO.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

What Frownland said. Until the Light Takes Us is great. I'd also recommend Lords of Chaos. It's sort of a cross between history book, sensationalist tabloid rag, and Nazi/Odinist manifesto, but it's just about the most entertaining book on music you will ever read. If you wanna know everything you ever wanted to know about Varg Vikernes, and probably a bunch of **** you didn't, then you can't miss it. One of those books that will stay glued to your hands.

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Chula Vista

Ok, so that's the long version. I'm looking for the short version from you guys in the know.

How did worldwide metal get turned on its ear by a few extremely remote Norwegian bands?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Let me google that for you

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Frownland

I think that all of the extramusical events surrounding the scene like the church burnings, murders, and the occult related antics helped put black metal on the map. There's always a market for the most 'extreme' music out there and while bm didn't really fall into that category compared to some of the other stuff out there, the actions of the members of the community gave it that notoriety.

And then there's the fact that black metal ****ing rules.

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Chula Vista

I'm putting the ball in your wheelhouse and you're gonna cop out?

I want your perspective. In the last 6 months since I've joined this place my appreciation of extreme metal has gone up a ton because of you and some of the others here.

Would the genre have survived without that ****?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

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The Batlord

I'm ****ing lazy and that's a lot to talk about. Here's a Wikipedia article, just for you.

Early Norwegian black metal scene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also, a bit of an answer to a question you asked days ago.

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