Scandinavia is full of black metal bands but it's about as anti-metal as you could imagine in every other respect.
"this functional Scandinavian welfare state with bland food and bland clothes makes me SO ANGRY that i want to make black metal"
maybe it's the long dark winters.
@thor honestly, blandness is a pretty good reason to do extreme things to counteract it. Though I too mostly bet on the dark and cold climate.
@Amikke it's some kind of mix between them.
i saw a documentary about the black metal scene in Norway, with the central focus being Varg Veum, the guy who burned all those churches, and the people who created that scene basically hated the blandness and orderliness of it all, a bit like punkers who see something that's too clean will kick it.
@Amikke a kind of oppressive cleanliness and orderliness. a bit like what the old rockers rebelled against with the hippie movement.
@Amikke what happened there is that there was a one-up-manship kind of thing going with being as dark as possible, so when the rumour spread that Varg Veum had been responsible for deaths, the black metal scene in Oslo thought "cooooool" and being rebels, they weren't keen on talking to the police. but it kind of dawned on them at some point that maybe it had gone a bit too far. after all, it's just a music genre.
@Amikke a guy who burns churches and ends up killing people along the way might have taken things a bit too far, so people began talking to the police eventually.
