![]() ![]() ![]() Beste doesn’t candy-coat or excuse the dark music’s literary touchstones - a blend of dark philosophy, Pagan rites, Satanism and Lovecraft and Tolkien mythology - or criminal past. Black-and-white shots of pale, scowling singers in corpsepaint and leather, walking through moss-covered woods or icy wasteland, make Alice Cooper and Gene Simmons look like cartoons in comparison. ![]() What makes True Norwegian Black Metal, a collection of essays and the work of American photographer Peter Beste, not just freakish but intriguing is that it resists tabloid urges and lets the images and artists speak for themselves.īeste became an insider after a decade of traveling to Norway and documenting bands, and his photos are striking. Any scene where piles of decapitated sheep heads are considered stage props and whose musicians have names like Necrobutcher and Count Grishnackh usually does. ![]() The extreme form of metal music that emerged in Norway during the late ’80s and early ’90s lends itself to hyperbolic and hysterical media (first thoroughly chronicled in the 1998 cult classic Lords of Chaos). According to legend, bits of his skull were made into necklaces the band would later wear on stage. The members of the seminal Norwegian black metal band Mayhem remembered their former vocalist Dead, who committed suicide in 1991, in their own way. ![]()
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