“…Black metal is different from the more popular heavy metal and other subgenres of extreme metal—it distinguishes itself from the warm guitar tones and guttural vocals of death metal, because black metal vocals are screeched and the music is purposefully disharmonic, abrasive in production and based on tremolo picking, thereby creating dark and cold atmospherics. Black metal has been labelled as one of the most extreme forms of metal (Kahn‐Harris, ) and has been linked, in some cases, to national socialism (Venkatesh, Podoshen, Perri, & Urbaniak, ) and racism (Kahn‐Harris, ; Podoshen, Venkatesh, & Jin, ). Given the growing right‐wing activities in Norway (Eriksen, ; Phelps, Blakar, Carlquist, Nafstad, & Rand‐Hendriksen, ) and its links to black metal (Kahn‐Harris, , ; Venkatesh et al, ), attempts to understand the multiple political, philosophical, socio‐psychological and musical facets of this extreme metal genre, and the behaviours of the actors within the scene, become even more important.…”