#silenoz

30 years of Symphonic Black metal Excellence!

What do you think of the current state of the black metal scene in your country? How would you compare today's scene to the more tumultuous period of a couple years ago? [note: this interview is from 1996]

If our scene was tumultuous a couple of years ago, it sure as hell is an even more tumultuous period we are going through now! Before all those newspaper-scribblings started, everything was under control. It was law and order. But suddenly, when the media got into it and started to fuck up really bad, everything got totally out of hand - especially after the death of Euronymous, when people started to choose sides. Should they stand behind a murdered man, a legend - or should they back up the newcomer who so endlessly bragged about "killing another weak human," as he put it? It became pretty pathetic, if you ask me. You know, he actually stabbed the man to death in his underwear... a very honorable and heroic act indeed.. So after these happenings, there popped up a lot of new bands, some very good and some that never would have lasted more than a few days if Euronymous had still been alive. Everything has its positive and negative sides. The positive must be that our scene really has been "placed on the map" as one of the best scenes, maybe the best one ever, with a lot of different-sounding and ambitious bands. The negative side must certainly be that a lot of kids and "children" without knowledge and respect for the music and cult came into the coven. Even though they never will be looked upon as a threat, I would prefer that they disappear and fade away - escaping the earth, possessed by us.

erkekjetter silenoz, 1993