The most dangerous men in heavy metal are now middle-aged

The complex, violent history of black metal poses a question: what happens when we outgrow our aesthetics, but not our beliefs?

There’s a taxonomy to Scandinavia, and it goes a bit like this. The Danes are the gruff, beer-swilling, heavy-partying pseudo-Germans who drink on trains and have accents a bit like Brummies. The Swedes are a little more arch, and like think they run things over there: they’re the most populous, the only really post-imperial Scandinavian country, and th…