Dead Norwegians, Israeli Disco and Satan's Penis: The Pulp Reality of the Metal Underground
Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1995
"SOME IMAGINE for some weird reason that Death Metal is something normal and available for everyone," Morbid/Mayhem vocalist "Dead" told an interviewer prior to his 1991 suicide. "If you go into an ordinary school, you will surely see half of them wearing Morbid Angel, Autopsy, and Entombed shirts, and once again I will vomit! Death Black Metal is something all ordinary mortals should fear, not make into a trend!"
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