Book Description'When we’re on the road, all we watch is VBS, and our favorite series is Norwegian Black Metal.' (Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters) Documentary photographer Peter Beste has spent the last five years working in the milieu of the Norwegian black metal scene. This scene, with its notorious events of murder, church arson, and self-mythology, is absolutely sealed to outsiders. The international black metal fan base is one of the most devoted, fanatical, and proprietary in the world. Beste’s access and insight into this world is unprecedented and has yielded an amazing photographic journey, along with a very popular documentary series on VBS.tv, also available on YouTube. Beste, together with Johan Kugelberg, noted writer, editor, and collector of documentary photography, has brought the images into a hermeneutic narrative that makes for a compelling experience along the lines of Anders Petersen’s Café Lehmitz, Ed Van Der Elsken’s Love on the Left Bank, or William Klein’s Life Is Good and Good for You in New York.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Nice Book
This is a very nice photo book.
with a good quality of photos and a good quality of the printed paper.
Rating: - a coveted gift
I was surprised at the size of this book; I wasn't expecting it to be so large. However, it's full of really amazing photography. Although I'm not the biggest fan of the subject matter, the recipient of this gift said something to the affect of "This is the best gift ever!"
Rating: - black metal
this is a must-have for anyone who loves black metal.... just amazing...this book gives you an entire view of the black metal hidden scenes...
Rating: - A Big Book for Extreme Music
First off, what a deal Amazon has on this. Pretty much half off what a person would pay in the store.
Anyway, like the other reviews here, this book is no slouch. It's meant for the coffee table and if you don't have a coffee table then it garners an extra seat on the couch. When people visit they have to sit next to the large front cover of Nattefrost holding up his inverted crucifix. It's definitely a conversation starter.
I've been a fan of this sub-genre of metal for ... Read More
Rating: - Very nice coffeetable book.
When this came in the mail I was initially mainly impressed with how big it is. It's a coffeetable book because it won't fit on the f###ing bookshelf. Anyone visiting me is doomed to have to stare at the large photo of Nattefrost covered in blood on the cover because it's always sitting out. At least the stupid cross he's always holding matches his shirt. I can't say anything against his fashion sense. Flipping through the book, one finds little in the way of text aside from a few quotes, some short ... Read More
