Tim Jonze's On shuffle: black metal

Tim Jonze daubs himself with corpse paint to spend a month listening to black metalEven if black metal isn't really your cup of sacrificial goat's blood, it's hard not to have a certain fascination with the genre. Blowing up in Norway in the early-90s, when bands like Mayhem and Darkthrone created a noise to match their satanic interests (all shrieks, frantic drumming and tremolo-picking), the music has remained notorious thanks to its links with far-right politics, church burnings and even murd...

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