Current location:	Office
Current mood:	bored
Current music:	Soukous Radio
Entry tags:	mog, music

[MOG] A Little Light
Monday is my day in the office, and I'm separated from my music -- which is a particular shame because The Morning News highlighted an article, in The Believer, on U.S. black metal. And thank God, cos I'm bored as snot.

What was more interesting than the Scandinavian mythology that underpins black metal (not death metal, thank you, keep your niche terms straight) is how the American musicians reacted to those at-times ridiculous antics.

...as Blake Judd of Nachtmystium told me: "I just feel that those bands are marketed for what has happened outside of the music, not so much involving the music. Like ‘Oh, church burning and murder and [Gorgoroth vocalist] Gaahl kills or tortures guys,’ but the last Gorgoroth album was weak as shit. Who cares what he does, if he’s a criminal? There’s guys selling crack in Chicago that are scarier to me than that guy."