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Towards the end of the nineties, black metal – by then one of the most feared musical genres ever, that had already made a name for itself thanks to a bloody streak of homicides and various acts of arson and violence – merged its sonic belligerence with National Socialist beliefs and the ideology of white power groups, breeding a new counterculture that’s incendiary and ferocious like no other. A formula of intransigent extremism like never before in contemporary music, a world where this mixture of aural excess and loyalty to the “mythos of the blood” gave birth to hundreds of new bands and gathered thousands of disciples from all over the globe: Russia, United States, Germany, France, Poland, Australia, Italy, Scandinavia and even South America. From the de­fining fathers of the genre (Absurd, Graveland, Der Stürmer, Spear of Longinus) to its more unknown and dangerous representatives, Wolves Among Sheep delves deep into this black abyss to bring forth the history and development of NSBM – National Socialist Black Metal, an underground phenomenon that transcended music to become a doctrine in its own right, a nefarious call to arms for those dissident youths who declared war on society as we know it. Foreword written by Michael Moynihan. 16x23cm, 576 pages, offset printing, comes in high quality softcover binding with flaps. English language . « Black metal to me is paganism, and paganism is neo-fascism, and neo-fascism is anti-christian, and anti-christianity is black metal. It is a circle that cannot be altered, for everything ­fits in perfectly » [Grand Belial’s Key, USA] « Black metal is the perfect soundtrack to all out war, yet it is the perfect symphony of the powers of nature. Cold and brutal as a northern wood in the dead of winter, yet bold and proud like an eagle soaring to the bright sun... NSBM is the sound of the Aryan spirit at war. The world has been warned » [Grom, USA] « Their “views” have nothing common with black metal at all. The so-called black metal scene has made an inexcusable mistake, having allowed sheepy “National Socialism” to be also named black metal » [Lucifugum, Ucraina] « Ribaric and Maspero leave no stone unturned as they recount NSBM’s bloody birth pangs, hyper-malignant growth, and surprising resiliency » [Michael Moynihan, author of Lords of Chaos ]