Black Metal is a musical form rife with contradictions. With its roots in schlocky heavy metal tropes from the ‘80s, the Black Metal of progenitors such as Venom expressed a vapid rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic with a surficial satanic orientation. It was not until the mid-‘90s and the rise of the second wave of Black Metal from Norway that this phenomenon came into its own, with a much more virulent and dedicated cadre of proponents, giving rise to widespread criminality […]