Idols Slain

“The Darkthrone Letters” (pdf)

You know that the time for seriousness has run its course when personality becomes the focal point of anything. Black metal had the particularly egregious task of remaining above this by mocking it, which it succeeded at doing ever so briefly. Any apparent contradiction of image becomes a dangerous weapon when you have placed yourself outside of the rules of merely human discourse.

Death metal’s stark anonymity, which black metal rebelled against directly, seems to have mostly immunized it against the type of gossip-mongering featured at the above link. At the very least, this has made its marginalization much less embarrassing to watch.

0 thoughts on “Idols Slain”

  1. Christer says:

    Whiskey Funeral.

  2. abdrahman says:

    love black metal ou maroc

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