![]() Of course, art always requires sacrifice. ![]() A high school dropout with a chip on his shoulder, Roland thinks he might finally be on the cusp of respectability-and, more importantly, financial stability-when he’s hired to plays drums on the eagerly anticipated comeback album of fading black metal legend Max (a.k.a. For others still, it is a warlike call to arms, a justification for hideous indulgences in Aryan supremacy and terroristic acts of right-wing violence.įor struggling session musician Roland, though, black metal is just a job. For others, it is a pagan communion, a ritual through which man’s animal spirit may reunite with those dark primordial forces of untamed nature that lurk beyond the metropolitan monoliths of civilized society. ![]() For a subculture so frequently concerned with purity and with being “true,” black metal sure does mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people.įor some, it is a spear in the side of the messiah, a gleefully Satanic rejection of Judeo-Christian morality and all its virtuous, vacuous, turn-the-other-cheek propriety. ![]()
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