Who knows when you'll stumble across the greatest Norweigan black metal band the world has ever seen? Have your mace out when you do. Although they'd probably like that, sick fucks. I guess somehow I was bragging to someone about how I'd just watched the adultswim phenomenon "Metalocalypse" on a giant, 3D TV. One of the sushi rollers at Sticky Rice then informed me it was all an elaborate satire of this great black metal band from the nineties called Mayhem, and there was controversy because of how the one guy killed himself and his bandmate kind of enjoyed the remains. So naturally I had to do some research. I found the picture of the rearranged corpse that Euronymous took and made into partial brain stew (rumored). It then became an album cover for a bootleg album called Dawn of the Black Hearts. Yes, that is his brain. And yes, it is pretty brutal.
Of course, right before I posted this, VICE just had to beat me to the punch: http://www.viceland.com/int/v8n1/htdocs/blackmetal.php
F-ing awesome.
While we're in the great Nordic regions, we shift our attentions to a little blonde dance pop chick from the nineties making a great splash. Robyn (best known for "Show Me Love", a favorite of 6th grade Julie) just came out with a new album, Body Talk Part 1. High-profile collaborators include Royksopp:
and Diplo, on the track "Dance Hall Queen." Themes include boredom, self-destruction, and feminine fierceness. What's not to like?
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