Table of Contents
Praise
Title Page
Acknowledgements
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
Epigraph
Chapter 1 - SYMPATHIES FOR THE DEVIL
LUCIFER TURNS UP THE VOLUME
ENTER THE BLACK POPE
THE NEW WAVE OF BLASPHEMY
THE UNHOLY TRINITY: VENOM
A MERCYFUL KING
THUNDER GODS: BATHORY
Chapter 2 - DEATH METAL DIES, BLACK METAL ARRIVES
UNITED SATANIC AMERICA
SOUNDLY THRASHED
DEATH THROES
VIKING DEATH SQUADS
Chapter 3 - A BLAZE IN THE NORTHERN SKY
WHY NORWAY?
Chapter 4 - MAYHEM IN THE DEAD ZONE
DEAD END
Chapter 5 - WELCOME TO HELL
EXPERIMENTS IN EVIL
HELL ON EARTH
SPREADING THE FEAR
Chapter 6 - ASHES
FIRE IN THE MIND’S EYE
THE BURNING TIMES
THE COUNT’S EMISSARY
BLACK METAL MEETS THE PRESS
UGLY TRUTHS, SCREAMING HEADLINES
FANNING THE FLAMES
Chapter 7 - DEATHLIKE SILENCES
HOMOSEXUAL MURDER
EXIT THE PRINCE OF DEATH
ANATOMY OF A SLAYING
BARBARIAN ETHICS
THE OFFICIAL STORY
Chapter 8 - COUNT QUISLING
FROM REALITY INTO MYTH
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO VARG
IN THE COMPANY OF HERETICS
MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ARYANS
Chapter 9 - RESURGENT ATAVISM: THE METAPHYSICS OF HEATHEN BLACK METAL
THE WILD HUNT DRAWS NIGH
THE LURE AND LORE OF ARCHETYPES
WOTAN REDIVIVUS
IN THE SHADOW OF WOLVES
THE MASKS OF ODIN
Chapter 10 - THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES
OUTSIDERS LOOKING IN
GIVING THE DEVIL MORE THAN HIS DUE
THE HIGH PRIEST SPEAKS
SELLING SATAN
BLACKLISTING
SMOLDERING PR STUNTS
Chapter 11 - FUROR TEUTONICUS
“HEATHEN HORROR”
RADICAL RIGHT-WING ASYLUM SEEKERS?
Chapter 12 - LORDS OF CHAOS
SWEDEN
FRANCE
ENGLAND
EASTERN EUROPE—RUSSIA & POLAND
UNITED STATES
FINLAND
Chapter 13 - RAGNARÖK
BLACK METAL BLACKSHIRTS
CONVERGENCE OF EXTREMES
THE NATIONALIST FRINGE
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
APPENDICES
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III - “SATANISM IN NORWAY ” written and translated by Simen Midgaard
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MUSIC RESOURCES
ENDNOTES
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