THE PAST IS ALIVE: Gazing into the Void of Black Metal (The History of Black Metal music)
Prologue: What is this that stands before me? THE DEVIL’S CULTURE is real. Satan, darkness, sex, blood, violence, witchcraft, the unknown. It was always there. From Jacques Tourneur’s “Night of the Demon” to the Hammer Horror films and Dario Argento’s “Suspiria”. From Tony Iommi’s “devil’s chord” (the tritone) to Mercyful Fate’s early satanic metal and …