i did an entry on the ultra damaged zine, because it also featured a signature from maniac and was a truly good read. i have many more books and magazines, though, and i thought i would share them here, because it's a quite big and interesting collection :)
secrets of my kingdom, the first and only book of mortiis in its rereleased form. i also have the original one in my collection. this is based on mortiis' imaginary world, a very bleak and hostile environment. it's like a collection of short stories entered around this world and our main character. this is very important to understand era 1 and the whole lore around it. the rereleased edition is absolutely gorgeous, with huge prints, interviews and a great cover, by david thierree.
and that is the second book, a book about david thierrees art, which has been used by many black metal artists. beautiful, very nature oriented and dark art.
the death archives has been collected and written by necrobutcher. a truly amazing collection of pictures from mayhem's most notorious time. also stories that show you this truly chaotic time, the time of mayhem.
black metal - hellenic cult was written by lord marganor, the owner of mexican azermedoth records. this was the first book i could find solely dedicated to hellenic black metal, and it's written by a mexican! this is self-released, but a work of dedication and love for black metal. so glad i found this.
blasphemous the book is the fanzine of the magus, best known for necromantia. i just had to get this, since this is a fanzine from greece and i wanted to see how the scene was here back then, what bands were known here etc. really interesting read and great effort from the magus.
the slayer mag diaries. do i have to say much even? this is a huge tome, it's massive. 20 issues of the zine, a book to kill people with, haha! metalion must be one of the most dedicated people to black metal. i don't always agree with his views and he later on started to mostly write about trash metal, not black metal, but this book is just written history. legendary.
letters from the dead was written by the old nick. he wrote letters to dead, mainly for business purposes. but dead opened up to him about many things that interest him. this shows well how troubled dead really was, how much he felt lost and in the wrong place on earth. very insightful small book.
the metal chapters is a greek project, combining songs with short stories. this features only greek bands, one of them being rotting christ. what a nice idea!
pirunkehto is the story of Finnish black metal. when i saw that there will be a book about this, i just had to get it. it's a massive tome and it was so interesting to read. loved every page of this.
masters of metal is a greek book about metal in general, but also featuring enough black metal bands. every band is introduced with a small text, but the focus is on pictures. i got this very cheap on sale, and it's nice to have it!
behemoth! here we have the biography of behemoth as well as nergal's personal book, dealing much with his struggle agains leukaemia. both of these books were fantastic and i enjoyed them immensely. makes me so happy to have seen them live and gotten to know so much through them.
the cult never dies series by dayal patterson is something truly inspiring. he released his first book on black metal, which has been translated in many other languages until now and gave him motivation to continue. people were hungry for this. and since then there have been countless new publications. here are the four i have, as well the first two pictures in this post, which have been published by dayal, too.
secrets of my kingdom, the first and only book of mortiis in its rereleased form. i also have the original one in my collection. this is based on mortiis' imaginary world, a very bleak and hostile environment. it's like a collection of short stories entered around this world and our main character. this is very important to understand era 1 and the whole lore around it. the rereleased edition is absolutely gorgeous, with huge prints, interviews and a great cover, by david thierree.
and that is the second book, a book about david thierrees art, which has been used by many black metal artists. beautiful, very nature oriented and dark art.
the death archives has been collected and written by necrobutcher. a truly amazing collection of pictures from mayhem's most notorious time. also stories that show you this truly chaotic time, the time of mayhem.
black metal - hellenic cult was written by lord marganor, the owner of mexican azermedoth records. this was the first book i could find solely dedicated to hellenic black metal, and it's written by a mexican! this is self-released, but a work of dedication and love for black metal. so glad i found this.
blasphemous the book is the fanzine of the magus, best known for necromantia. i just had to get this, since this is a fanzine from greece and i wanted to see how the scene was here back then, what bands were known here etc. really interesting read and great effort from the magus.
the slayer mag diaries. do i have to say much even? this is a huge tome, it's massive. 20 issues of the zine, a book to kill people with, haha! metalion must be one of the most dedicated people to black metal. i don't always agree with his views and he later on started to mostly write about trash metal, not black metal, but this book is just written history. legendary.
letters from the dead was written by the old nick. he wrote letters to dead, mainly for business purposes. but dead opened up to him about many things that interest him. this shows well how troubled dead really was, how much he felt lost and in the wrong place on earth. very insightful small book.
the metal chapters is a greek project, combining songs with short stories. this features only greek bands, one of them being rotting christ. what a nice idea!
pirunkehto is the story of Finnish black metal. when i saw that there will be a book about this, i just had to get it. it's a massive tome and it was so interesting to read. loved every page of this.
masters of metal is a greek book about metal in general, but also featuring enough black metal bands. every band is introduced with a small text, but the focus is on pictures. i got this very cheap on sale, and it's nice to have it!
behemoth! here we have the biography of behemoth as well as nergal's personal book, dealing much with his struggle agains leukaemia. both of these books were fantastic and i enjoyed them immensely. makes me so happy to have seen them live and gotten to know so much through them.
the cult never dies series by dayal patterson is something truly inspiring. he released his first book on black metal, which has been translated in many other languages until now and gave him motivation to continue. people were hungry for this. and since then there have been countless new publications. here are the four i have, as well the first two pictures in this post, which have been published by dayal, too.
Death to light, to law, to love
Cursed be moon and stars and stars above
May darkness the everlasting old
Drown Manwë, Varda and the shining sun
-Daedin
