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Mayhem - a Norwegian black metal band with an extremely fucked up history (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 months ago by Lennnny@lemmy.world to c/creepywikipedia@lemmy.world
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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Check out Lords of Chaos which is about the early Norwegian black metal scene.

[–] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

On my check-out list this spooky season!

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Until the Light Takes Us is pretty good too for more of a documentary style look at it

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Do note that it's based on an unauthorized history of the band that many people from the original scene denounced as a sensationalized account. That said, many of the worst parts are true.