The band is Arckanum and the song is “Gava Fran Trulen.” Thanks to MS Maniac “SYL Townsend” for the tip.

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What could be more grim than recording your black metal album in a cave?

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I don’t know why a video of a dude in corpsepaint on a skateboard is so fucking funny. But it is. Truly fucking hilarious. Axl’s out of the Mansion today (though not without prepping a few choice posts for ya’ll), so it’s just me and good ol’ Higgins — MS Mansion Monkey extraordinaire — hangin’ and doing bong rips whilst trawling YouTube. And we cannot get enough of this video. Just classic. So well done.

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[Thanks: Skapegoat]

This is too amazing for words. The best is the one dude who seems to have no other purpose than to headbang. Thanks to MS Maniac Chetan P. for sending this one in.

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In honor of the birthday of Mr. Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, this past monday Illogical Contraption composed a quick poem about Norwegian Black Metal, inspired by the playful verse of the man himself.

In the kingdom of Norway, a far away land
You’ll find oh so many crap-tabulous bands!

There’s Darkthrone and Emperor, out on the fjords
All decked out in corpsepaint, with leather and swords!

There’s Gorgoroth, Burzum, and Mortiis to boot
Wearing his silly old skull-codpiece suit!

But first there was Mayhem, a quarrelsome group
Who looked hella evil but sounded like poop,

They burnt down some churches, they dug up some graves
Those black metal bozos just wouldn’t behave!

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Is your website trve… or is it emo? MS Maniac “Al” posted a link to his website — the appropriately titled Trve Vs. Emo — that tells you just how br00tal your website is or isn’t. The application would’ve been a lot more fun if the page didn’t explain how it works, but apparently it parses “lyrics by norweigan [sic] black metal bands, such as Mayhem, Burzum and Darkthrone” to arrive at the Trve ranking and “emo bands like My Chemical Romance and Fall out boy” to arrive at the Emo ranking. We decided to take it for a spin and test the Trveness of some of our favorite websites.

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The co-option of metal culture into the common lexicon never ceases to amaze. Take this video posted on Metal Injection; whose idea was this? Who chose to match it with horribly inappropriate and insulting music? Maybe the joke’s on us and we’re the last to get it.

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[Special thanks: Photoshop Corpsepaint Contest winner Joel V.!]

This past summer, Axl informed you guys that Gorgoroth frontman Gaahl was gay. I’m here to add that he is also one scary motherfucker.

VBS, the guys who brought you Heavy Metal in Baghdad, have a short form documentary, True Norwegian Black Metal, that features one of the freakiest moments ever captured on film.

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Actually Canadian Idol. I’ve always known Canada is more progressive than the U.S., but this seals the deal. And is highly amusing. I’ll bet this dude gets some pretty killer health insurance.

[Sent in by MetalSucks contributor Corey Mitchell]

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For all its uber-seriousness, you can’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of black metal. From the impenetrable Deciblog:

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