Music transcends across countries, continents, cultures, and language barriers, and cuts right to the heart and soul of people, and no matter what genre of music someone connects to, the fact is that there is that connection

From Slayer’s ‘Angel of Death’ in the 1980’s to the Norwegian black metal scene in the 1990’s to the current strain of National Socialist Black Metal on extreme politics have played a role in extreme metal either aesthetically or ideologically

Black metal’s nationalistic racism can be seen as an “extreme” reflection of the xenophobia and cultural nationalism proliferating throughout Norwegian society and of the “everyday” racisms these attitudes engender

In 1995, Chuck Schuldiner, an animal-lover with a habit of wearing a shirt decorated with kittens during interviews, lamented that he had never really intended to create the genre known as Death Metal

Since those opposing Satanism have been beguiled by the horror stories promoted in popular culture and have been less inclined actually to study Satanism, they have created a particular image of Satanism that is often at odds with the reality