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| Hi all,
My name’s Dean Samways. I write for a music website called The Quietus. We’ve just posted an interview with the photographer Peter Beste who’s published a book called ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’. It’s a massive documentation of some of the darkest figures in metal including Gorgoroth http://www.gorgoroth.org/, Carpathian Forest http://www.myspace.com/blackshiningleather, Darkthrone http://darkthrone.no/news/index.php, Wardruna http://www.wardruna.com/, Immortal http://www.immortalofficial.com/, 1349 http://www.legion1349.com/ and Trelldomhttp://www.trelldom.no/.
With sheeps’ heads adorning stages and crucified boys used as props, this work is the most insightful of it’s kind, giving fans a uniquely personal view of their favourite bands and neutrals a brutal introduction to this violent subculture.
If you want to have a read of the interview and perhaps sign up for our RSS feeds follow this link:
http://www.thequietus.com/
Let me know what you think.
Dean. |
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| I think, and you did ask what I think, you want desperately to be pitchfork media, although being "hip" you are even more desperate to cover up that desire. I know your target audience are Hipsters who claim to love everything but do you seriously think that the majority of Black Metal fans (ie the members of this forum) are going too care much about Huston Hip-Hop, even if a famous Black Metal photographer is behind the camera? Most of us don't care to understand hip-hop culture so artistic photography of it means very very little to us, just as Black Metal centric photography looses all meaning to the average hip-hop fan. Aside from that is there any Black Metal related content in that hasn't been touched on before? Nope. Oh and for someone who preaches against small word counts that's a tiny excuse of an interview. As for the rest of it, it's the same tripe Pitchfork have been shoving down everyone's throats for years; pomp, pseudo-intellectualism and pretence, your opinions are "correct" because you're (self-declared) "taste-makers" who have "superior" taste in art to the rest of us. And of course because as you are "The Quietus" (did you deliberately think "what's the most pretentious name we can come up with" or something) no doubt you will simply brush this off with the usual inane, ego-stroking criticism every blogger-turned-"journalist" reacts with, but there you go. Finally, for saying you clam to have disdain for the mainstream music press having a Radio 1 DJ on the staff roster is somewhat hypocritical... even if he is John Peel's stand in.
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