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Black metal was branded in 1982 by a band who could not play it, forged alone in a Stockholm suburb, then hammered into doctrine in Norway by teenagers who burned down part of their own country's history on the way. The first wave and the second, the fires and the court records, the Nordic and European scenes, America,...
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