Yeah but Gaahl is theatrical for the sake of being theatrical. "Ooooh, Gaahl, you're sooooo scary beating up 50 year old men and drinking their blood".
Do you ever notice that these people never beat up rugby players? Varg kills Euronymous while he's in his underwear, then kills some effeminate homo in the woods, and Gaahl kicks old men's asses and everyone's like, "Wow, he's so evil and necro."
What the fuck ever. Throw their asses out in the middle of Brooklyn or Philly or New Orleans at midnight and see how long they last. It's easy to be a badass when you live in the safest country in the world. Guido, Sean, or Leroy would've handed them their asses in a second...then we'd see just how evil and badass they really are.
I love black metal, but most of these people are a fucking joke.