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Photographer Peter Beste on Black Metalnew
Partly for his love of metal and partly because he's fascinated by the violent history and extreme nature of the Norwegian black metal scene, Beste spent close to seven years hopping back and forth to Norway in order to shoot some of the scene's most influential and interesting personalities.
NOW Magazine |
Evan Davies |
06-23-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Photo Tome Sheds Light on a Dark Scenenew

Photographer Peter Beste has compiled seven years of capturing fake blood and real shit, inverted crosses and mixed messages that reveal Norwegian black metal bands to be the Ramones of death metal: simple and conceptual, an expression of acceptance and rejection, cartoonish and dead serious.
Metro Times |
Tony Ware |
06-10-2008 |
Nonfiction