Satan Rides The Media: A Varg Vikernes Documentary
Published in Culture Bully, The Blog. Tags: Music.
This 1998 documentary does little to expand on what is now commonly known to black metal fans familiar with Varg Vikernes, Øystein Aarseth and the Norwegian church burnings of the early to mid 1990s however it does provide a lot of footage that adds weight to the story. Along those lines, the film takes time to elaborate on why black metal truly has little to do with Satanism and why the genre is far from the quasi-religion that came to a head in the 1960s. I also implore you to go back and take a look at the documentary that Peter Beste did for VBS as it offers a different side to the music, one that isn’t often explored.
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