Music Banter - Black Metal and Norway

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Black Metal and Norway

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?)

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

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

They sound eerily similar IMO.

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.

Spoiler for Back Cover:

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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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1587699)

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?

Let me google that for you

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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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1587703)

Let me google that for you

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.

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1587704)

I think that all of the extra musical events surrounding the scene like the church burnings, murders, and the occult related antics helped put black metal on the map.

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

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1587708)

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

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1587704)

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

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1587708)

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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The Norwegian bands developed the style of their 1980s forebears as a distinct genre of heavy metal music. This was partly thanks to a new style of guitar playing developed by Snorre 'Blackthorn' Ruch of Stigma Diabolicum/Thorns and Øystein 'Euronymous' Aarseth of Mayhem, in which guitarists played full chords using all the strings of the guitar in place of power chords using only two or three strings. Gylve 'Fenriz' Nagell of Darkthrone has credited them with this innovation in a number of interviews. He described it as being "derived from Bathory" and noted that "those kinds of riffs became the new order for a lot of bands in the '90s".