Excellent Mayhem article

[speed]

Here is a Excellent Guardian article on Mayhem and Norwegian black metal: scenehttp://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1415240,00.html

 

[NAD]

Cool article.

Black Metal relishes its position as the most extreme form of music imaginable.

Yeah right, it's so extreme that 2409857240850 bands sound exactly the same.

 

[Demilich]

a good read, that was. jolly good.

 

[Profanity]

Nice read.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Wow - a well researched and impartial look at the black metal scene... I'm gonna print it out and frame it, I think...

 

[Profanity]

I'm going to show it to my Psychology teacher.

 

[spaffe]

Yes very good actually, and a strange coincidence that a reporter who's both articulate and open-minded gets a chance to write an article on black metal.


EDIT: Noticed that it was a brittish and not an american paper and my initial surprise faded somewhat

 

[JayKeeley]

Nevertheless, Necro Butcher was initially blamed for two of the attacks by police. 'Soon after, I met this chick at a party and ended up taking her back to my place,' he recalls. 'The next morning, she told me that she'd burnt those churches. I said, "That's good because I was framed for your crime but it was nice to meet you anyway. And nice to fuck you too!" She was a Black Metal girl. Now she's a Nazi girl. She was the daughter of another loony. Her mother was involved in one of those women's groups that storms into stores and throws out the pornos. So you can see the type of insanity that was around.'

Haha, small world.

 

[speed]

If it was a American paper it would have been a plea to have Mayhem arrested; and I am sure they would have interviewed church groups, parents leagues, psychiatrists, the cops--everyone but the band.

You are just jealous Spaffe, that your country is not in the middle of a moral revolution.

 

[The.Donut]

I enjoyed reading that.

 

[NAD]

You are just jealous Spaffe, that your country is not in the middle of a moral revolution.

This here is what is known as 24k gold. Not tone, not plated, no. Solid gold.

 

[spaffe]

You are just jealous Spaffe, that your country is not in the middle of a moral revolution.

Hehe you're living in a fascinating country, it will be fun to see where it goes in the coming ten or so years.

If that article was done by the mainstream (or superficial or horrible if you like) press in Sweden, they would probably have focused only on the shocking aspects and immensly exagerrated them in order to sell more papers. We have two major newsbill publishing magzines in Sweden and it's a rare day when the topic is not something connected with sex, "celebrities" or new life-threatening diseases (which usually upon furhter reading turns out to be potentially lethal to you if you're the age group 0-1 year and 90-99). What I'm saying is that I think it's disgusting how they only publish frivoulus and stupifing crap (as an exmaple, the former national head of police was on trial for some serious error on duty last year which they'd didn't publish a single article on) just to sell more. But I guess it's nothing unique for Sweden... :|

 

[lizard]

Rocker gets 30 years for satanic killings
Leader of Italian heavy metal convicted of three murders, says "Mayhem, Emperor? What Fucking Pussies!"

Prison police escort Andrea Volpe, center, leader of Italian heavy metal rock band 'Beasts of Satan' as he arrives at court. "I can't wait for prison," he enthused, "Christianity condemns buttsex so for a blackened satanist like me, yards of convict cock are right up my moral poopshoot!"

Updated: 1:50 p.m. ET Feb. 22, 2005BUSTO ARSIZIO, Italy - The leader of Italian heavy metal rock band Beasts of Satan was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for killing the group’s singer and two women in Satanic ritual murders.

Andrea Volpe, who hid his face from cameras as he entered the courthouse, had hoped for a lighter sentence after leading authorities to the victims’ bodies and confessing to cult killings that have horrified the Roman Catholic country.

One of his accomplices, Pietro Guerrieri, thought to be the cult’s “gravedigger,” was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

“We got justice,” said Lina Marino, the mother of Chiara Marino, whom band members stabbed to death under a full moon in 1998. She was 19.

They apparently believed that the petite brunette was the personification of the Virgin Mary.

Fabio Tollis, 16, a singer in the amateur rock band, was dating Marino at the time and took a fatal hammer blow to the head after trying to stop her killing.

Volpe, a guitarist, was also convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Mariangela Pezzotta last year. She was shot in the mouth and her body mutilated.

The Satanic killings sparked fears in Italy of a spread of devil cults, and the Vatican last week started a course for Roman Catholic priests on Satanism and exorcism in response to what the Church says is a worrying interest in the occult, particularly among the young.

Prosecutors had only asked for a 20 year sentence for Volpe, reduced for collaborating with authorities. His confession was key to cracking the case, and Volpe, they said, appeared to truly regret the killings.

“If he had not admitted everything, nobody would have been able to convict him for the death of Fabio and Chiara,” prosecutor Antonio Pizzi told La Repubblica newspaper.

“The fate of those two (teenagers) would still be shrouded in mystery. Maybe the bodies would never have been found.”

Including Volpe, 10 members of the cult are linked to the case, which is also scrutinising the suicide of another member, Andrea Bontade.

One accomplice, Paolo Maccione, was acquitted of criminal association on Tuesday but will face murder charges in a juvenile court since he was a minor at the time of the murders.

Defence attorney Flavio Violo said he would appeal the sentence of Volpe who has said he fears satanic killers may seek revenge against his family for spilling details of the secret death cult.

“It’s been terrible telling my parents that I was a killer. Then I was terrified that someone would do something bad to my father and my mother,” Volpe told La Repubblica. “The Beasts have powerful friends.”

 

[Ayeka]

Oh, I'd heard about the Italian thing, first time I've seen a 'proper' article on it though...

 

[lizard]

this guy looks more like a donut salesman than anything.

 

[Demilich]

hey, he's Italian. If I had food like that around me all the time I'd probably be a few pant sizes larger myself!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

no kidding, pasta rules

OOPS WORTHLESS DRUNK POST

 

[KILL TULLY]

hahahaha I think its so funny how when I read about mayhem/saw pictures/etc etc the first time when I was like 13 I was like "WOH THIS GUYS ARE CRAZY METAL MANIACS!!!1!1oneone1!!!" and when I read that Itallian thing just now it comes of as a horrible attempt at being a cool satanic rocker/metal head/trying to be Mayhem, etc etc etc.

Its just so completely different...which is completely obvious...so I don't know why im posting this....



then I found 10 dollars...

 

[Russell]

Wow - a well researched and impartial look at the black metal scene... I'm gonna print it out and frame it, I think...

In the Observer on Sunday, no less

 

[Ayeka]

You found that strrange too, eh? ^_^;