#necrodeath

Necrodeath - "Into The Macabre" - 1987 Italy First Wave Black Metal

Master of all evil by necrodeath

translated from Italian

"It was 1988 and at the time I was dating a girl from Oslo who had been his schoolmate. We soon became good friends, so much so that we actually talked about organizing something together, even a tour in Russia that never went through due to some bureaucratic problems. Øystein had a great admiration for Necrodeath. He knew our first two albums, 'Into The Macacbre' and 'Fragments Of Insanity' by heart, he really appreciated our way of composing and in particular the anarchic style of Claudio on the guitar, especially his counter-stroke rearped after the bar that has somewhat identified the style of Necrodeath and that of course Pier also uses in many passages. By hanging out with him in everyday life, I learned to know him in a different way, distant from that character wrapped in his aura of mystery. He was a very intelligent, polite boy, but with very clear ideas. Extremism, if that's what you want to call it, was in the gestures he made, even in the most common ones. When he opened his record shop, for example, he did not make any electricity contract. Everything was in the dark, lit only by candles… something that created no little surprise in a city like Oslo, always so ahead of its time. He lived extreme metal one hundred percent, he was genuine through and through. For me, however, he was mainly a guy like me who lived extreme music at the top of his passion and conviction, so I saw him more as a colleague or a friend with whom to spend several nights... at home eating with friends or out in the Oslo's nightlife. I was very saddened when I heard of his passing. It was so unexpected for me, to die like this... at that age... it was horrible news for me."

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