![]() Peter Beste has spent the last eight years working in the milieu of this insulated and secretive community. What started as juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity, a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods, and the complete rejection of mainstream society. In the early-mid 1990s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Pagan mythology and adolescent angst. In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called black metal has emerged in Norway. "True Norwegian Black Metal" was issued on May 15 via Vice Books. Photos from the opening night can be found at this location. ![]() American documentary photographer Peter Beste - who visited Norway thirteen times in seven years while working to develop the definitive photodocumentation of Norwegian black metal scene for his book "True Norwegian Black Metal" - launched a month-long exhibit at Gallery Operating Place in Stockholm, Sweden on September 25. ![]()
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