Norwegian Death Metal
Norwegian Death Metal: Ultra-Gothic subgenre of heavy metal whose Scandinavian adherents embrace the occultist and medievalist motifs (pentagrams, capes, inverted crosses, etc.) that their English and American forebears grew sick of around 1978. Though an escapist kick for American hobbyists (Jack Osbourne was seen on TV blasting Norwegian death metal at his neighbors), the music is more authentically threatening in its homeland, where one risibly named death-metal start, Count Grishnackh, is serving time for the 1993 murder of another, Euronymous.
--The Rock Snob's Dictionary, Steve Daly and David Kamp
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