As someone who has never been able to be an atheist, that’s a personal beef, but he also does little to separate the theistic Satanists of the sort like Watain from the kids who “sacrifice” people because they watch too many horror movies. In fact, it was during this second wave, post Bathory and Venom era, that Black Metal truly evolved into the ferocious form it is now. Come on -- how can you really boast that you're an evil agent of Satan when you have to borrow money from your mom to put out your band's record?

It also devotes several pages to the case of a self-styled teen militia named "Lords of Chaos" that perpetrated murder and arson in Fort Myers, Florida, in April 1996, [7] but does not mention why the title Lords of Chaos was chosen for the book. Peste Noire and Drudkh didn’t exist when Lords of Chaos was first written, but I think bringing in these bands with clear nationalistic bents but no overt Nazi tendencies would really contribute something interesting to the discussion. It feels like you're being yelled at by a crazy person on the street who won't leave you alone, and all you want to do is get your groceries to the car. It's one of the few books that I've kept on reading simply for the enjoyment of reading it rather than pushing myself to get through it. The kind that also believes in making money for himself, as they all do despite being boring and running off at the mouth constantly about anti consumerism.German online magazine Telepolis questioned Moynihan's neutrality towards the ideologies portrayed in the book, as it leaves several far-right and racist statements by interviewees such as Vikernes uncommented on and uncriticized. I wouldn't discourage any reader from checking this out for the pure cheese fest that were those promotional photos. It also strives to answer the question of why people are attracted to this type of extreme music, and does a fairly good job of answering that question along with posing a few more questions in the long run? Personally, I'm all for not treating convicts like animals until they can no longer integrate into society. The interviews themselves make it worth reading, however, and it is something you should familiarize yourself with if you are a black metal fan so that you can decide for yourself what is good and what isn’t.

During this period Moynihan contributed to various magazines and journals, including Seconds and The Scorpion,[10] and has interviewed artists and figures such as power electronics founder Whitehouse,[11] Unleashed,[12] Bathory,[13] In the Nursery,[13] Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey,[14] controversial figure Charles Manson,[15] Peter Steele of Type O Negative, discussing Social Darwinism,[16] Misfits founder Glenn Danzig,[17] Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder Genesis P-Orridge,[18] and Swans founder Michael Gira. Eventually, the book moves back to center and takes a look at Black Metal fanzine journos and other genre acts besides the ones that are considered Black Metal's 'beloved'. The book goes on to compare the state sought by the commission of these violent acts with the apocalyptic Norse tale Ragnarök, but states that neither radicalized black metallers nor "their occasional allies, the right-wing revolutionaries" may have found "the fuse on the powderkeg of alienated resentment which lies behind the façade of 20th-century civilisation", yet that such a "powderkeg" exists nonetheless. If they had to have it be REAL then they are not the average Erik who kills Lara Croft over and over again in a depressive funk (I don't know what the average Erik is like). Granted, the authors have assembled a relatively impressive oral history of the Norwegian black metal scene, and the book does a pretty good job of telling the core story regarding Varg and Euronymous.

The interviews are a slog, with repetitive questions and stupid answers from figures that aren't relevant to the book's subject matter. The core story of the book - the origins and rise of Scandinavian black metal and the crimes committed by that scene's members - is fascinating and fairly well told, although the interminable interviews the authors throw in to every chapter make for painful reading. El asesinato de Euronymous a cargo de Varg Vikernes culmina una primera parte de libro lleno de personajes extremistas rodeados de una sociedad que no entendía (y, posiblemente, siga sin entender) nada de lo que estaba pasando. The World According to Quisling" Archived February 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine by Gisle Tangenes, BitsofNews. At times it felt like I was reading a biography on him, or the transcript of a speech by him, there was just that much focus on him, his life and his interviews with the author.