Episode #04 | 3.20.18

Norwegian Black Metal: Satanic Rebellion, Murder, and Worse

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In this episode

Never has there been a more extreme form of musical rebellion than Norwegian Black Metal. The genre’s founding band, Mayhem, its sister act, Burzum and supporting cast of musicians with names like, Necrobutcher, Hellhammer and Dead horrified Norway in the early nineties with supreme acts of terror, satanic ritualism, murder, arson and cannibalism. By the time the ashes settled and the corpse paint chipped away, numerous band members would be dead or in jail, convicted of arson and or murder… and a new generation of young metalheads would find their way to satanism through blast beats and dead notes.

 
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Sources

Michael Moynihan: Lords Of Chaos, The Bloody Rise of The Satanic Metal Underground (New Edition)

Variance Films: Until The Light Takes Us Film

carwreckedbangs: Norwegian Black Metal, Satanism, Church Burnings and Murder- What Hath Venom Wrought?

Kerrang: Making A Murderer

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.

 

Music

Score by Jake Brennan. 

Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.

Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.

Samples

Creepy Ghost Scream by epicdude959 licensed under creative commons 0 license with changes

dubstep blood bath by bazz_boy licensed under creative commons 0 license with changes

Hell’ss Teeth by Puniho used under creative commons 3 license with changes

Death Metal Drums by erich94 used under creative commons 0 license with changes

Death Metal 1 Drums by erich94 used under creative commons 3license with changes

Death Metal 2 Drums by erich94 used under creative commons 3 license with changes

Small Crowd pre-concert talking party bar walla talking by JohnsonBrandEditing used under creative commons 0 license with changes

*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivakihg

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