Señores del caos

Reissue, for the first time in paperback, of this exhausted key title of the recent cultural chronicle, which touches music and crime, sociology and black chronicle, occultism and religion in equal measure. Lords of Chaos takes a detailed look at the history of Norwegian black metal, analyzing both its musical, political and social roots as well as its artistic and criminal consequences, reflecting not only the most sensational and wild aspect of the movement but also its most elegant and passionate side. The result of years of work and interviews, the care and attention provided by the authors is evident in their efforts to capture the contradictions and differences that nest both in the welfare state of one of the most stable and well-to-do democracies in the world and within the alternative music scene itself, dismantling the simplistic portrait offered by the tabloids. For Moynihan and Søderlind, the black metal scene introduces legitimate reflections on art, ethics and politics, but they never lose sight of how strange its members can be. Beyond the fantasies of satanism, neopaganism and national socialism, beyond the burning of churches and the drift towards more serious crimes that would end up giving the phenomenon a sad name, Lords of Chaos is a first-rate journalistic work on a phenomenon that was born as a genuinely marginal and underground movement to end up shaking the society that engendered it at all levels.