The poignancy of this film comes from the fact that even a movement of such extremity could not transcend the drab realities of either real life, or the modern cultural world.
As for its artistic motivation, black metal perhaps makes the most sense in light of Fenriz's comment that "I like the wealthy and troubled art that comes from the exhaustion of easy life." Other extreme noise scenes have emerged from Japan, Switzerland and the English suburbs, perhaps for the same reason.īlack metal professed a desire to change the world. What pushed the scene to such a brutal terminus remains unclear. Vikernes was sentenced to 21 years in prison, with several other churches being torched in copycat attacks. Where black metal differed from most other youth cults was in its willingness to follow this antisocial tendency through to a lethal conclusion: Mayhem's vocalist blew his own head off, with a picture of the corpse taken by bandmate Euronymous later used on the sleeve of a live bootleg Emperor's drummer Faust murdered a homosexual in a park Burzum's Varg Vikernes burned down four churches and killed Euronymous by stabbing him through the head.
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