Created by Finnish artist JP Ahonen, the Belzebubs comic strip features an adorable metal-loving family and all of their dark adventures together. From having a little baby to having lunch with grandma - the strip features normal everyday things a family would do, but in a strangely adorable black metal way.
Bathory - Black Metal & Viking Metal trilogies
Bathory (1984)
The Return…… (1985)
Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (1987)
Blood Fire Death (1988)
Hammerheart (1990)
Twilight Of The Gods (1991)
Black metal bands have never been keen on religion. However, in parts of the world where religion can actually be oppressive, bands inspired by Bathory and Mayhem and Burzum are few and far between.
That’s presumably because it’s a lot easier to be in an anti-Christian metal band in the US, than in an anti-Islamic metal band in Saudi Arabia. In America, your obstacles extend to overhearing your mom tell a friend you’re just “going through a phase.” In Saudi Arabia, you face social ostracism and the possibility of imprisonment or death.
With that in mind, you’ve got to give it to Saudi Arabia’s only black metal band, Al-Namrood, whose lyrics include all sorts of things that could get them executed. I got in touch with guitarist and bassist Mephisto for a chat.
-Meet the Saudi Arabian Black Metal Band That’s Breaking Saudi Law By Being a Black Metal Band
Candlemass - Lucifer Rising
In the dunes of Egyptian sand
In the cities and small towns
The word goes from land to land
The dawn of enlightenment is here
Oh blessed the children of doom
As they dance on the meadows
Oh poet and merchant and witch
You know the master is here
Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer Rising
The caravan reaches the port
And they sail down the river
To praise and witness the birth
of the king the one that will come
Black worship in church and home
Seek their way to power
And free them from chains of Rome
To Shout the name of The Lord
Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer Rising
In the dunes of Egyptian sand
In the cities and small towns
The word goes from land to land
The dawn of enlightenment is here
Oh blessed the children of doom
As they dance on the meadows
Oh poet and merchant and witch
You know the master is here
Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer Rising
