True Norwegian Black Metal

True Norwegian Black Metal
by Peter Beste

True Norwegian Black Metal
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Author: Peter Beste
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05
ISBN: 1576874354
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Vice Books

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Book Review: Black Metal receives an appropriately artful treatment
Summary: 5 Stars

Peter Beste has made this book an essential photographic record for fans of the genre and anyone interested or curious about it. Although the inherently extreme nature of black metal symbolism makes for an easy target this collection presents the subject matter through crisp, stunning visuals and an overall volume that's made with class and objectivity, if perhaps some enhancement of the philosophy behind the music with several grand quotes. This book also includes a great timeline of the black metal genre as well as a collection of tabloid-style newspaper and magazine (Kerrang, for one) feature articles regarding the "bad old days" of Norwegian black metal.
If you've listened to black metal for years, are just starting, or are curious about the genre, go ahead and pick this up. It's well worth every dollar of Amazon's reduced price tag.

Summary of True Norwegian Black Metal

"When we?re on the road, all we watch is VBS, and our favorite series is Norwegian Black Metal." (Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters) Documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last five years working in the milieu of the Norwegian black metal scene. This scene, with its notorious events of murder, church arson, and self-mythology, is absolutely sealed to outsiders. The international black metal fan base is one of the most devoted, fanatical, and proprietary in the world. Beste?s access and insight into this world is unprecedented and has yielded an amazing photographic journey, along with a very popular documentary series on VBS.tv, also available on YouTube. Beste, together with Johan Kugelberg, noted writer, editor, and collector of documentary photography, has brought the images into a hermeneutic narrative that makes for a compelling experience along the lines of Anders Petersen?s Café Lehmitz, Ed Van Der Elsken?s Love on the Left Bank, or William Klein?s Life Is Good and Good for You in New York.

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