"Burn the Quran! Burn the fucking Quran!" a woman screams hoarsely, over
and over again. Tinny guitars course beneath her howls, sawing away at
any semblance of melody. Sampled snippets of fundamentalist Islamic
rhetoric filter through, and muffled voices exhort their unseen audience
to praise Allah and to destroy the infidel.
To fans of heavy music, the hallmarks are immediately recognizable. This
is raw, mid-tempo black metal, a lo-fi example of heavy metal's most
evil subgenre. Black metal feeds upon hatred, nihilism, and anti-human
behavior. Extremity is everything. It drinks the blood of Christ, turns
upon its own, and takes almost carnal pleasure in the theory and imagery
of war. The music from the early days of this scene conjured images of
the ashes of burned churches and the dried blood of murder, and yet the
genre, in its middle age, often doesn't shock the way it once did. The
hellish noise of this particular song, though, does. There's something
different about it. This is real...
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Friday 13 July 2012
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