Posted on 03/03/2008 12:16:26 PM PST by Between the Lines
-snip- "Sin stands for beauty, sin stands for life. Sexual sin is every man's right!! He will exalt the wicked of man: our king the Antichrist!"
Self-described Satanist Lord Ahriman, lead singer for the Swedish black-metal band Dark Funeral, is scream-growling at an internal-organ-rattling volume inside Jaxx's concert hall. Thrilled fans, many of them teenagers clad in black, shoot Devil-horn hand signs into the air. A horned, fang-toothed man-beast roars from a massive banner across the stage.
Most common T-shirt of the night: "The day you die is the day I smile." Most common adjective: brutal (in a good way). Most common piece of jewelry: It's a tie between chains and upside-down crosses.
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"The more intelligent you are, the more unlikely you are to believe in God; it's a fact," says Bittinger, drinking a beer with a group of childhood friends. "People in the underground scene tend to have higher IQs -- my own being 143."
Bittinger is a good example of a black-metal fan because he's actually quite interested in religion. He is well read on the occult and the dark arts. Though not a Satanist, he can easily rattle off different Satanist sects, and he mocks black-metal fans who don't know that Saint Peter is said to have died upon an inverted cross. He knows all about black metal's connection with violence. (In the 1990s in Norway, members of two bands committed murder, and another group's lead singer killed himself; meanwhile, fans burned dozens of churches in a supposed tribute to pagan traditions wiped out by Christianity.) And Bittinger identifies strongly with the genre's clear theme: the role of evil in humankind and the world.
"Black metal is an outlet for darker things," he says. "It's mostly driven by anger, frustration, dark thoughts."
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Yeah, man!
Hang your head, Tom Dula,
Hang down your head and cry,
You killed poor Laurie Foster,
And now you're going to die . . . .
Have you read Who Fears the Devil?? Good book.
Oh, yes. I had the whole Wellman oeuvre, many moves ago. So atmospheric.
Joseph Lucas's last words: "Don't . . . drive . . . at . . . night . . . ."
"All the parts falling off this car are of finest British workmanship . . . "
- former owner of 2 TR-6s and a TR-4. (I'm a slow learner.)
He hits the exact tone. I know some folks like the ones in the book, I'm even related to some of them!
Given the subject, this guy could also be partial to Hieronymus Bosch parts.
We’re from the slightly hilly midwest :-). I loved the people who were so far out they thought George Washington had been King!
Maybe this guy is so miserable because he has a 2 hour commute. I he moves next store to where he works, then he starts listening to the Carpenters.
It was o.k. in the end though.
(not quite but close!)
Good point. NoVa traffic would drive me over the edge, I'm sure.
My relations in Missouri all became Republicans during the Clinton years.
“Black metal is an outlet for darker things,” he says. “It’s mostly driven by anger, frustration, dark thoughts.”
Sounds like liberalism.
Honestly, I bet this guy is a Big Hairy Pu$$y (BHP), as well as a dullard.
Least I’ve lived long enough to see things come full circle: I remember winning “Bible Bingo” dressed in my Black Sabbath t-shirt, when I was twelve, much to my aunt’s horror.
Someone should tell BHP, “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Mat 7:14)” There is nothing easier than destroying, and trending to the base of man’s nature. A real man transcends, and builds.
Black Metal is SOOO 1985. Anyone else remember Venom and Mercyful Fate (sp)?
Maybe this guy is so miserable because he has a 2 hour commute. I he moves next store to where he works, then he starts listening to the Carpenters.
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Sort of like Karl Marx, who had carbuncles on his anus and testicles. If he’d been able to sit comfortably he probably would have been a dentist and a Presbyterian Elder.
That'll teach you to eat your Vegemite!
I had an uncle who had a Holley 4 barrel carbuncle in his Torino.
I’ve been looking for Vegemite or Marmite this week actually . . . a friend says he likes it and I’ve never tried it before. I’ve tried brewers yeast a few times but it’s almost impossible to choke down and I didn’t realize Marmite was a yeast product. I will go to Publix this evening since I don’t want testicular carbuncles. Who wants to vote Democrat?
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