       
Satanic extremity from beyond
the land of the dead, black metal with its embrace of death, destruction,
evil, violence, genocide, fascism, suicide, apocalypse, genocide, Nazism,
oppression, mutilation and desecration of the dead. Heavy metal taken to
spiritual extremes, black metal resurrects ancient pagan and gnostic principles
of transcendence and warrior's honor.
Black metal is searing
renaissance of romanticism in the melodic yet atonal masterpieces of these
underground acts. It is all of the nihilism of death metal and yet its
own, darker,more morbid commentary: Black metal is structure and beauty
in death.
Black metal is a renaissance
of morbid thought in order to purge us of our dependence on images of life
and illusions of perpetual existence in which all values are the same.
Black metal points to the
inequity in life and
celebrates the differences that create dark spaces - black vacuums of emptiness
- into which those inclined to have their own motion can move and create
in a universe that
otherwise rewards only
those who move with the flow.
Where there is no future
for humanity, black metal - misanthropic and midevil in its obsession with
destruction - has a home, and where black metal exists a mentality within
humanity is urging
overthrow of the empire
of denial we all know has been the human addiction for all of recorded
history. It is something so insidious and perpetual that it cannot be given
a name, but so seductive - like heroin without the needles - that it is
omnipotent throughout the human equation, as if we were afraid to admit
our mortality, the end of our path being death; black metal cuts through
this illusion and perpetuates an acceptance of chaos and death as welcome
as well as necessary.
Reviled by those who
wish to maintain a status quo of inactivity, null value, denial and easy
profits for those willing to steal from their world and succumb to the
ways of the trained predator, black metal unleashes your inner feral soul
and brings forth the black predator in your spirit. Black metal is the
soul of post-apocalyptic existence, and if you feel an inspiration toward
darkness, you will heed the call of black metal.
        
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BANDS
IMMORTAL BURZUM
EMPEROR
MAYHEM
SACRAMENTUM
ANCIENT
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ABRUPTUM
ABSU
ABYSS, THE
ANCIENT
ANGELCORPSE
ARCTURUS
AUZHIA
BATHORY
BEHEMOTH
BELIAL
BLASPHEMY
BLAZEMTH
BLOOD
BURZUM
CHRIST AGONY
CULTUS SANGUINE
DARK FUNERAL
DARKTHRONE
DARK TRANQUILITY
DAWN
DEINONYCHIUS
DEMONIC
DIMMU BORGIR
DISSECTION
EMBER
EMPEROR
ENSLAVED
EUCHARIST
FORGOTTEN WOODS
GORGOROTH
GRAVELAND
GROTESQUE
HAVOHEJ
HADES
HELLHAMMER
ILDJARN
IMMORTAL
IMPALED NAZARENE
INFERNUM
INQUISITION
KATATONIA
KVIST
LORD BELIAL
MARDUK
MAYHEM
MERCILESS
MORTIIS
MYSTICUM
NECROMANTIA
NIDEN DIV 187
OPHTHALAMIA
PERVERTUM
RESUSCITATOR
RITUAL
ROTTING CHRIST
SATANIC SLAUGHTER
SACRAMENTUM
SAMAEL
SARCOFAGO
SEPTIC FLESH
SETHERIAL
SORT VOKTER
SUMMON
SUMMONING
SWORDMASTER
THORNS
TARTAROS
THRONE OF AHAZ
TROLL
ULVER
USURPER
VARATHRON
ZYKLON-B
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