| *TWO TEENAGE GIRLS HURLED THEMSELVES OUT OF A WINDOW IN A PARIS SUBURB IN A JOINT SUICIDE PACT ON SEPT 23RD.BOTH WERE IN THERE EARLY TEENS AND BOTH WERE CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF THE FRENCH BLACK METAL SCENE.THE TEENS COMMITED SUICIDE AFTER VISTING A FRIEND.THE TEENS THEN THREW THEMSELVES OUT A NEARBY BEDROOM WINDOW.THE PAIR APPARENTLY HELD HANDS AS THEY JUMPED.THEY BOTH LEFT A NOTE WHICH DECLARED THAT LIFE WASN’T WORTH IT.WHAT SET THE INCIDENT APART FROM THE USUAL TEEN SUICIDE CASES WAS THE GIRLS APPARENT OBSESSION WITH THE FRENCH BLACK METAL BAND ANOREXIA NERVOSA AND THERE CD “SUICIDE IS SEXY”.THOUGH NO PROOF THAT ANY PERSONAL LINK BETWEEN THE BAND AND THE GIRLS EXIST SO CALLED EXPERTS ARE LAYING THE BLAME ON THE BANDS PRO -SUICIDE LYRICS AND A GROWING TREND TOWARDS SATANISM AMONGST FRENCH YOUTH.SO CALLED EXPERTS ARE CLAIMING AN OCCULT LINK TO THE SUICIDES EVEN THOUGH NONE IS VISIBLE.THE GIRLS DO APPEAR THOUGH TO HAVE BEEN FANS OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA EVEN POSTING SAMPLES OF THE BANDS LYRICS ON A PERSONAL WEBPAGE. ANOREXIA NERVOSA HAVE YET TO ISSUE A STATEMENT ABOUT THE ACCUSATION OR THE GIRLS SUICIDE SUICIDE.
*IN LITERARY BLACK METAL NEWS ERLEND ERICHSEN FORMER DRUMMER FOR GORGOROTH HAS PENNED AND RELEASED A TRUE LIFE NOVEL ENTITLED”NATIONAL SATANIST”.THE BOOK WHICH IS CURRENTLY ONLY AVAILABLE IN A NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE EDITION APPARENTLY FOCUSES ON THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL SCENE.SPECIFICALLY THE INFAMOUS CHURCH BURNINGS IN NORWAY AND THE MURDER OF OYSTEIN AARSETH ALSO KNOWN AS EURONYMOUS.ERICHSEN PAINTS A BITTER PICTURES OF THE EARLY 90’S SCENE AS WELL AS HIS FELLOW MUSICIANS CLAIMING THE SCENE ITSELF WAS RUINED BY DRUGS,INFANTILE BEHAVIOR AND COMMERCIALIZATION.HE ALSO CLAIMS THAT MOST OF HIS FELLOW MUSICIANS HELD PURE MISANTHROPHY FOR THERE FANS VIEWING THEM AS SHEEP!
*NOVAK MAJSTOROVIC SHOWED NO EMOTION WHEN HE WAS SENTENCED FOR BURNING A CENTURYS OLD CHURCH.THE 19 YR OLD WAS ALSO FINED HEAVILY FOR SETTING FIRE TO THE ST. ATHANS UNITY CHURCH.PROSECUTORS BLAMED THE BOYS ADORATION OF THE BAND BURZUM AND ITS LEADER VARG VIKERNES AND HIS ANTI-CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY.CLAIMING IT HAS STRONGLY INFLUENCED HIS OUTLOOK UPON LIFE AND HIS DECISION TO BURN THE CHURCH.ONE PROSECUTOR WENT SO FAR AS TO CLAIM THAT THE TEEN HAD BEEN SEDUCED BY BLACK METAL!LATER AFTER THE TEEN RECEIVED HIS THREE YEAR SENTENCE HE APOLOGISED TO THE CHURCHS UNITY CONGREGATION EVEN INVITING THEM TO WRITE TO HIM AND OFFER HIM ADVICE.ADMITTING IN COURT HE MIGHT NEED PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING.THE INCIDENT WHICH TOOK PLACE IN 2004 OCCURRED AFTER HE LEFT A FRIENDS PARTY DRUNK THEN APPROACHED THE UNITY CHURCH IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.HE ADMITTED THAT AT THE TIME OF THE ARSON HE BELIEVED RELIGION CREATED A SLAVELIKE PEOPLE AND SHOULD BE STOPPED.HE ALSO INFORMED THE COURT HE HAD SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL OF ANGUISH FROM TAKING CARE OF HIS INVALID MOTHER WHO IS SHIZOPHRENIC.THE CHURCH HAS NOW ATTEMPTED TO OPEN A DIALOGUE WITH THE YOUNG MAN IN HOPES OF REACHING HIM
*IBEX THRONE UTAHS FINEST BLACK METAL BAND HAS SIGNED TO AUSTRALIAN BASED GOATAWA REX RECORDS.THE BAND ARE NOW PREPARING TO RECORD THERE SECOND FULL LENGTH CD “TOTAL INVERSION”FOR A LATE FALL 2006 RELEASE.THE BAND DESCRIBE THERE NEW SONGS AS TRUE HATE FILLED BLACK METAL!IT SHOULD BE AMAZING.A US TOUR IS NOW BEING PLANNED AND WILL FOLLOW THERE NEW CDS RELEASE.
*THE ITALIAN VAMPYRIC BLACK METAL BAND THEATRES DES VAMPIRES HAVE BEEN WARNED BY LONDON POLICE WITH A BAN IF VOCALIST SCARLET CUTS HERSELF,ATTEMPTS TO DRINK HER BLOOD OR TRIES TO FEED IT TO AUDIENCE MEMBERS!THE BAND WHOS TOUR OF ENGLAND BEGINS ON OCT 28TH AND ENDS IN LONDON ON NOV 25TH HAVE YET TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WILL DROP THE BLOOD LETTING FROM THERE ACT.ODDLY ONE OF THERE BRITISH TOUR DATES IS AT THE JAILHOUSE VENUE IN COVENTRY ON NOV 4TH!THERE NEW ALBUM “PLEASURE AND PAIN” IS NOW OUT ON CODE 666 RECORDS
.*DAVE MUSTAINE BORN AGAIN ROCKER AND GIGANTOUR KINGPIN HAS ADMITTED IN A RECENT INTERVIEW TO DEVIL WORSHIP!MUSTAINE RECENTLY BORN AGAIN BAPTIZED LUTHERAN AND RAISED JEHOVAH WITNESS AND THE SON OF A JEWISH MOTHER ADMITTED IN HIS YOUTH HE EXPERIMENTED WITH WITCHCRAFT (MUSTAINES OWN SISTER IS A WHITE WITCH)AND EVEN READ THE SATANIC BIBLE!(WHO THE HELL HASN’T!I USED TO LIVE BY IT!)BORN AGAIN THREE YEARS AGO AND APPARENTLY DONE WITH TRYING TO KILL HIMSELF ON A REGULAR BASIS MUSTAINE ATTRIBUTES HIS CURRENT SUCCESS TO HIS BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANI BELIEFS.MUSTAINE WHO RECENTLY HAD ROTTING CHRIST BARRED FROM PLAYING A FESTIVAL DATE ALONGSIDE HIM IN GREECE AND HAD SATANIC DEATH METALLERS DISSECTION BOOTED OFF AS WELL MIGHT ACTUALLY BE RIGHT.THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THIS THRASH METAL LEGEND TURNED LOSER HAS- BEEN IS STILL AFLOAT AND BREATING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS .AFTER RELEASING CRAPPY CDS LIKE CRYPTIC WRITINGSAND SHIT SONGS LIKE MOTORPSYCHO IT MIGHT ACTUALLY PROVE SOME KIND OF DIVINE INTERVENTION !
*AMAZING!THE EMPEROR BLACK METAL LEGENDS HAVE REFORMED AFTER A THREE YEAR ABSENCE.THE BAND APPEARED RECENTLY AT THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY FOR NORSE METAL MAGAZINE. SCREAM.PERFORMING A THREE SONG SET THAT INCLUDED “I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS”.THE BAND HAD APPARENTLY KEPT THERE APPEARANCE UNDER WRAPS KEEPING IT A SECRET EVEN FROM CLOSE FRIENDS.THE BAND ARE NOW PLANNING FULL SHOWS NEXT YEAR.THEY WILL BE HEADLING THE INFERNO FESTIVAL IN APRIL AND THE WACKEN FESTIVAL IN AUGUST.A TOUR MAY FOLLOW.CANT WAIT!
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