Photo Booth: Norwegian Black Metal : The New Yorker

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Norwegian Black Metal

From the teased mullets of hair metal to the corpse-paint of the darker categories, heavy metal music and its subgenres have long been reinforced by visual…

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/norwegian-black-metal.html?currentPage=all

Over a period of six years, the photographer Peter Beste documented the secretive, insular community of black-metal musicians and fans, with a focus on the bands Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Carpathian Forest