Ongoing History Daily: More fun with black metal

November 4, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

So you think that today’s music is a little lightweight and lacks real rebellion, do you? Perhaps then you need to get into black metal from Norway. You might wish to start with a band called Gorgoroth.

Led by guitarists Infernus and Tormentor along with a drummer named “Goat Perverter”–yes, that’s the name he uses–Gorgoroth took live performances to various extremes. An example from 2005: They played a gig in Krakow, Poland, after which they were charged with religious defilement. Why? I don’t know. It could be that their stage show used 100 litres of blood and seven impaled sheep heads. Everyone in the band played with sheep entrails around their necks.

Oh, and the “religious defilement?” That probably had something to do with the hooded naked women mounted on crucifixes on stage.

Gorgoroth. Fun times with Norwegian black metal.

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