LORDS OF CHAOS:

LORDS OF CHAOS: THE BLOODY RISE OF THE SATANIC METAL UNDERGROUND by Michael Moynihan and Didrik SĖderlind (Feral House Press, ISBN 0-922915-48-2) is finally available.

Advance copies of the book have already circulated to extremely positive response, and author Moynihan was already the guest for 2 hours on the highest rated Denver, Colorado morning drive-time talk radio show to discuss LORDS OF CHAOS in front of two million listeners.

The book is 6'' x 9'', perfectbound, approximately 370 pages long, and contains 239 illustrations. It is based on years of intensive research and innumerable incisive interviews. This is not simply a document of an obscure violent music subculture. Anyone interested in subjects such as psychology, theology, sociology, Satanism, heathenism, true crime, political extremism, the real consequences of Christian fundamentalist propaganda, and much more, will find this a fascinating work. It also contains three supplementary articles as appendices, an extensive bibliography, and endnotes which document every quotation cited in the book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preamble: Into That Darkness [introductory overview of Black Metal crime phenomenon]

1. Sympathies for the Devil [history of Satanism in modern music and pop culture, spanning from the demonic Blues of Robert Johnson, through the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Coven, Black Widow, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, Venom, Merciful Fate & King Diamond, and Bathory]

2. Death Metal Dies, Black Metal Arrives [development of extreme Metal from Thrash (Slayer et al) to Death Metal (Deicide, Morbid Angel, etc.) to the '90s Black Metal revival]

3. A Blaze in the Northern Sky [overview of Black Metal in Norway, Slayer magazine, gestation of the BM scene, investigation of why Norway in particular went to such unparalleled extremes]

4. Mayhem in the Dead Zone [in-depth history of the band Mayhem, focusing on original singer "Dead" and his infamous shotgun-suicide]

5. Welcome to Hell [chronicle of Euronymous and his founding of the Helvete ("Hell") record shop, which became the epicenter of Black Metal]

6. Ashes [the initial wave of church burnings as seen through the eyes of perpetrators, priests, and psychologists; investigations of the arson motives and similarities to classical definitions of pathological pyromania]

7. Deathlike Silences [Black Metal murders: "Faust's" slaughter of an innocent homosexual man; Varg Vikernes exterminates Euronymous with extreme prejudice]

8. Count Quisling [Varg Vikernes of Burzum and his assaultive worldview]

9. Resurgent Atavism: The Metaphysics of Black Metal [study of the atavistic relations between Black Metal and Norse heathen beliefs and practices; exploration of barbaric Odinic paradigms in BM]

10. Their Satanic Majesties [study of varieties of Satanic philosophy as manifested in BM, analyzed and discussed from numerous perspectives: Christian theology, History, Crowleyan occultism, opinions of academic folklorists, and a final assessment by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey]

11. Furor Teutonicus [the explosion of Black Metal crime in Germany: the band Absurd and their remorseless murder of a fellow student]

12. Lords of Chaos [worldwide round-up of Satanic and BM-related crime: Sweden, France, Russia, United States]

13. Ragnarok [ideological similarities and documented connections between BM figures and organized extremist groups.]

Appendices

I. "We Lit the Fires" by Finn BjĖrn TĖnder [text of the incredible newspaper article which first brought Black Metal and church burning to the attention of the Norwegian populace]

II. "Oskorei" by Kadmon [new translation of a detailed essay on relationship between BM and nordic heathen culture by a noted Austrian occult researcher]

III. "Satanism in Norway" by Simen Midgaard [overview of Norwegian Black Metal by the founder of the Oslo branch of Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis, originally published in the intellectual newspaper Morgenbladet.]

Book Length: 370 pages with 239 illustrations including rare and unpublished band photos, concert shots, crime scene photos taken by the perpetrators themselves, rare archival material, and much more.

Exclusive band interviews: Venom, Merciful Fate, Bathory, Mayhem, Burzum, Ulver, Absurd, Enslaved, Cradle of Filth...

Interrogations with: priests, police officers, the killers and their accomplices, psychologists, sociologists, theologians, occult leaders, and one of the last-ever interviews of late Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey.

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