This New Black Metal Documentary Totally Misses the Point

Blackhearts opens with a bespectacled expert explaining to a group of schoolkids that black metal-the movement of souped-up teenage metal bands from the early ’90s that replaced MotA rhead’s booze-and-bike talk with Satan, forests and ice -has become part of mainstream culture in Norway. But in other countries, he explains, “black metal is still something obscure and exciting.”