| 2016-07-22 | 18 | Baptism | "Satananda" | V: The Devil's Fire | Baptism are a Satanic Finnish black metal band. I once baffled a Swedish metal-loving co-worker by suggesting that a Finnish band was similar to a Swedish one. "Oh!", he explained. "They're Finnish!" To me, black metal is nihilistic to the point of universality. All unintelligible languages are equivalent. But apparently this universalist interpretation is not universal. No doubt I would say "Oh! They're from Phobos!", baffled in turn. |