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"When we’re on the road, all we watch is VBS, and our favorite series is Norwegian Black Metal." (Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters) Documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last five years working in the milieu of the Norwegian black metal scene. This scene, with its notorious events of murder, church arson, and self-mythology, is absolutely sealed to outsiders. The international black metal fan base is one of the most devoted, fanatical, and proprietary in the world. Beste’s access and insight into this world is unprecedented and has yielded an amazing photographic journey, along with a very popular documentary series on VBS.tv, also available on YouTube. Beste, together with Johan Kugelberg, noted writer, editor, and collector of documentary photography, has brought the images into a hermeneutic narrative that makes for a compelling experience along the lines of Anders Petersen’s Café Lehmitz, Ed Van Der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank, or William Klein’s Life Is Good and Good for You in New York.
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Black Metal!
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Awesome book. Photos are great, print quality id high. Written content is apropriately sparse. The fold-out timeline from 995 A.D. to present is nice.
true north american photographic art!
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I've heard about Peter Beste and this book from a long time ago, I was always curious about it but I have never decided to purchase it until I found a really great offer here in Amazon. First of all, the book is really huge, with pages and hardcover made of materials of the greatest quality. The book itself contains a high load of photographs from lots of characters from the norwegian black metal scene, here you can find live photos of typical corpse painted bands or individuals, but you can also see Samoth (Emperor and Zyklon member) playing with his doughter, Nattefrost (Carpathian Forest) smoking heroine in his kitchen(!), Fenriz (Darkthrone) headbanging in his room, members from Immortal walking in the woods or Ghaal (Gorgoroth) standing in front of his cabin atop of the mountain. The photos are all of them nicely done, looks like Mr. Beste knows something about photography! Seriously, Peter Beste have done here a great job, he's a very skilled guy. Apart from photographs, the book also contains an introduction written by Metalion, founder of Slayer Magazine; a three page norwegian black metal timeline that goes from the christianization of Norway in 995 A.D. to the denial of parole to Varg Vikernes in 2006, very detailed; some scanned fanzine interviews to people like Euronymus, Dead or Emperor; and some old photos from the church burnings or the infamous kerrang interview to Varg. If you are into black metal and into bands like Carpathian Forest, Emperor, Taake, Enslaved, Windir or 1349, get yourself a copy, it is worth the money!
A peak into an unknown world
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I have been fascinated with Norwegian Black Metal music for a while, especially with the intensity of it. The images in this book convey this intensity quite well. Most people might think that it's all just Halloween gone mad but if you know anything about the background of the music and the people involved you will find that this book captures the whole phenomenon in all of it's facets. You will not be disappointed.
THE BEST BLACK METAL BOOK EVER!!!!!
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If Your a fan of the whole Norwegian Black Metal scene then this IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!!! Weighing in at over 4 POUNDS!! This book delivers a Black Metal punch like no other one before it or since it's release. Peter Beste's photos bring out the true nature of the Black Metal scene in an arsenal of both color (that literally explodes off the page!) and the black and white photos that are both haunting and cold. The images in the book really capture the atmosphere that is so present in the Black Metal scenes music style. There are both Band photos and individual Band Member photos that are exclusive only to this book (The Nattefrost photos for example). The MAYHEM material at the back of the book is worth the cost alone. I can't recommend this book to you enough it's really a terrific piece and I am really glad Peter Beste put such a monster of a book out for us Black Metal fans. Some of the Bands featured in the book include: Nattefrost/Carpathian Forest, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, 1349, Gorgoroth, Immortal, and MANY MORE!!If You have been considering picking this up please don't hesitate! You will NOT be dissapointed!!!! HAIL NORWAY!!!!!! P.S.Make sure to leave plenty of room for this book it is absolutely HUGE!!!!
photographical excellence
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i bought this and it is a true black metal tribute to the look into Norwegian black metal Peter Beste has gone into Norways biggest musical export and put a beautiful photographical face to the persons behind the music a truly great coffee table book.
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