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MAD, BAD, SAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW

book cover (15564 bytes) LORDS OF CHAOS
Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind
(Feral House 1998)

Granted access to inside sources, Michael Moynihan (of Blood Axis) and Didrik Søderlind have produced an exhaustive account of the infamous cult surrounding Norwegian Black Metal music.

Professing a bastardised amalgam of Satanism, paganism and neo-Nazism, the cult has been characterised by self-destruction, church-burning and murder.

Michael Moynihan has some sympathy for this 'revolt against the modern world' but few will be impressed with the death-obsessed depressives, sociopaths and egomaniacs which this cause has attracted. With the rare exception of groups like Ulver, these people are losers and their actions of no more world significance than the low-life antics of any urban slum.

Rik - 4 October 1998

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