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BY WILLIAM RESTREPO | |
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 HISTORY OF BLACK METAL | ||
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 Starting
with British middle-fingered madmen Venom in the late
1970s, this style of heavy metal used punk work ethic to make a
simple but surprisingly dark and expressive form of anti-life art.
At first humorous, it grew toward illustrating the obsession with
negativity that is a hallmark of postmodern consciousness, paranoia,
and drone existence in western nations."Black metal" as a term was invented by Venom, who with simpler but more violent and "evil" melodramatic versions of the heavy metal radio hits they heard, crafted an image which would be filled in the next generation with bands like Hellhammer, Bathory, Celtic Frost and Sepultura. |
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