Black Metal: Bloody Hell!
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1994
Of course, it's all a right old laugh, Death Metal, isn't it? But in the long Scandinavian nights, some people have failed to see the joke. Enter Black Metal, complete with real deaths, real incinerated churches and very real Fascist overtones.
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