114 reviews for:

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

Didrik Søderlind, Michael Moynihan

3.47 AVERAGE

embla_claymore's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

jonnyfox's review against another edition

5.0

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I found this fascinating. Growing up in the 90's I read about this as a child but the book gives a really in depth look at the movement, the politics around it as well as Norse mythology.

Although the politics and actions are vile, it's hard to look away. With the music scene now so squeeky clean and with everyone terrified of causing offence this is a throwback to a time not so long ago when anything went.

a_monkey's review against another edition

3.0

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Ridiculously metal.

thesewerking's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

passacaglia's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative relaxing medium-paced

actovgod's review against another edition

5.0

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Great book on black metal scene. It gives insight to different perspectives to the matter, interviews with both black metal artist, police, experts on different social and religious studies. The book is not only on Norwegian scene, but also on different European and American black metal scenes that were influenced by the Norwegians. Book is written in simple English, but with nice style and features a lot of explanations both on ideology, phylosophy and history that influenced the bands. Also, there is a lot of pictures and illustrations.

nerdofdoom's review against another edition

5.0

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Black Metal!

jennymills21's review against another edition

2.0

dark informative slow-paced

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Dear authors: You know you can edit down the twentieth fucking neo-n**i interview you copied down, right?! They don’t all have to be 15 pages of horrendous hate speech. You know that, right?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Murder

polarcosmos's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

mirareadsbooks's review against another edition

4.5

dark informative slow-paced