Bands including Dead, Euronymous, and Varg Vikernes -- along with sociologists, police officers, theologians, and occultists -- recount how the satanic Black Metal, a spin-off of the heavy metal underground, devolved into acts of church burning, murder, and suicide in Scandinavia. This second edition, fully revised, discusses the crimes committed by Black Metal practitioners since 1997 in one of the strangest sagas in the history of rock and roll. Over 200 photos and illustrations are included. --Publisher.;Preface to the new edition -- Preamble : into that darkness -- 1. Sympathies for the devil -- 2. Death metal dies, black metal arrives -- 3. A blaze in the northern sky -- 4. Mayhem in the dead zone -- 5. Welcome to Hell -- 6. Ashes -- 7. Deathlike silences -- 8. Count Quisling -- 9. Resurgent atavism : the metaphysics of heathen black metal -- 10. Their satanic majesties -- 11. Furor teutonicus -- 12. Lords of chaos -- 13. Ragnarök -- Appendices -- I. "We lit the fires / Finn Bjørn Toønder -- II. "Oskorei" / Kadmon -- III. "Satanism in Norway" / Simen Midgaard.