Seeing as plenty of club-members seems to dig true murder stories -- and this film being a movie about a Swedish pagan murder-cult, I'd thought I'd do a write-up on the real-life murder cult that existed in Sweden, which was also a Heavy Metal band.
Dissection was a heavy-metal band whose members belonged to the satanic-pagan cult Temple of the Black Light. The cult freely mixed Luciferian and Pagan notions into a gnostic Chaos-theology about a primordial realm of darkness and chaos that existed outside our dimensions. The bands lyrics are based on the esoteric teachings of the Temple -- Dissection basically working as an arm of the Temple of the Black Light.
Here is my favorite songs of theirs. Notice the references to Chaos and the various esoteric names being howled maniacally in mid-chorus.
Anyways, for some time the cult had been diving deeper and deeper into the notion of practicing blood-sacrifices to appease their Dark Chaos Gods. They had been discussing victims. Reportedly, one of the band members girlfriends had been a key nomination.
The actual killing happen spontaneously through. The bands lead singer Jon Nödtveidt alongside a cult-member simply named Vlad (he was an Iranian who changed his name) one night had entered a bar. There they meet a man named Josef ben Meddour.
Jon Nödtveidt
Josef was an gay Algerian immigrant who had moved to Sweden to avoid persecution back home. He was apparently quite drunk and rambunctious at the bar. Unlike the sort of American Satanism created by Anton LaVey (Church of Satan) the Temple of the Black Light wasn't cool with homosexuality at all. On the spot -- they decided to sacrifice him.
This is typical Arab luck by the way. You emigrate to another continent just to avoid one set of religious extremist only to be killed by another set of religious extremists for the exact same reason.
Anyways, somehow Jon and Vlad had compeled Josef to follow them. They led him to a nearby park, where the blood sacrifice was to take place. Vlad had with him a taser with which they had intended to immobilize the man with. However, apparently, tasers don't work in reality as they do in movies.
Vlad stunned Josef... whom feel stunned to the ground and then got up and started running away. Vlad then brought out his gun that he had with him and shoot Josef in the back, felling him. Jon took the pistol -- and finished off with a neck-shoot.
I'm sure the Chaos-Gods were mighty disappointed in their disciples.
Anyways, the case was solved when Vlad's girlfriend contacted the police. He had been raping and abusing her for years which prompted her to contact the authorities (not to mention him having talked about sacrificing her too). In a drunken stupor, Vlad had bragged to her about killing the man -- and that was all she needed to know. Dumb criminals, amirite?
When the police searched Vlad's apartment, they found severed human body parts hidden in the home, though these were most likely bought. Jon and Vlad were charged and imprisoned and the cult disbanded in the following tumult.
Years later, when Jon had served his prison sentance, he comitted ritual suicide by blowing his brains out inside a circle of lit candles. At his feet lay a satanic grimoire. The runes of the Chaos Gods having been scribbled all about the room. He told his friends he was going to Transylvania.
I guess the Chaos Gods got their sacrifice after all.
Some years ago I meet this heavy metal guy who had been a fan of Dissection. He told me the event absolutely sucked. Ever since then he has had nothing to listen to.
Actually, what is so funny about Lovecraft is that his style was antiquated even in his own time period. Even when he was alive people were calling for him to modernize his prose. I've read that he basically grew up a hermit and that his companionship in life was an old library -- which I suspect may have influenced his writting-decisions.
What's your favorite Lovecraft story, btw?
I'm pretty standard in what I like --The Call of Cthulhu followed by Shadows over Innsmouth.
Hey, at least Lovecraft had a humongous revival and is now one of the biggest names in horror. Not everyone gets that.
Other writers, like say William Hope Hodgson (whom actually preceded Lovecraft and pioneered many of the Cosmic Horror tropes that Lovecraft was famous for) is still almost forgotten expect by the truly diehards. Lovecraft himself was a fan of Hodgson. Though even Lovecraft complained about Hodgson's shitty prose.
But popularity is a fickle and weird thing. When Lovecraft was alive -- the Stephen King of his day was Lord Dunsany. Lovecraft was a huge fan of Dunsany and his worst stories are basically pastiches of Dunsany work (like a lot of the Dreamlands hulabaloo).
Today however -- while Lord Dunsany isn't excactly forgotten -- Lovecraft easily towers above him. despite the fact that Dunsany was ginormously more popular than Lovecraft in their own timeperiod.
Makes you wonder whom will be remembered in the future. King might be completely forgotten while some slob working in utter obscurity is the next Lovecraft. Staying-power is a beast of it's own.
Seeing as plenty of club-members seems to dig true murder stories -- and this film being a movie about a Swedish pagan murder-cult, I'd thought I'd do a write-up on the real-life murder cult that existed in Sweden, which was also a Heavy Metal band.
Dissection was a heavy-metal band whose members belonged to the satanic-pagan cult Temple of the Black Light. The cult freely mixed Luciferian and Pagan notions into a gnostic Chaos-theology about a primordial realm of darkness and chaos that existed outside our dimensions. The bands lyrics are based on the esoteric teachings of the Temple -- Dissection basically working as an arm of the Temple of the Black Light.
Here is my favorite songs of theirs. Notice the references to Chaos and the various esoteric names being howled maniacally in mid-chorus.
Anyways, for some time the cult had been diving deeper and deeper into the notion of practicing blood-sacrifices to appease their Dark Chaos Gods. They had been discussing victims. Reportedly, one of the band members girlfriends had been a key nomination.
The actual killing happen spontaneously through. The bands lead singer Jon Nödtveidt alongside a cult-member simply named Vlad (he was an Iranian who changed his name) one night had entered a bar. There they meet a man named Josef ben Meddour.
Jon Nödtveidt
Josef was an gay Algerian immigrant who had moved to Sweden to avoid persecution back home. He was apparently quite drunk and rambunctious at the bar. Unlike the sort of American Satanism created by Anton LaVey (Church of Satan) the Temple of the Black Light wasn't cool with homosexuality at all. On the spot -- they decided to sacrifice him.
This is typical Arab luck by the way. You emigrate to another continent just to avoid one set of religious extremist only to be killed by another set of religious extremists for the exact same reason.
Anyways, somehow Jon and Vlad had compeled Josef to follow them. They led him to a nearby park, where the blood sacrifice was to take place. Vlad had with him a taser with which they had intended to immobilize the man with. However, apparently, tasers don't work in reality as they do in movies.
Vlad stunned Josef... whom feel stunned to the ground and then got up and started running away. Vlad then brought out his gun that he had with him and shoot Josef in the back, felling him. Jon took the pistol -- and finished off with a neck-shoot.
I'm sure the Chaos-Gods were mighty disappointed in their disciples.
Anyways, the case was solved when Vlad's girlfriend contacted the police. He had been raping and abusing her for years which prompted her to contact the authorities (not to mention him having talked about sacrificing her too). In a drunken stupor, Vlad had bragged to her about killing the man -- and that was all she needed to know. Dumb criminals, amirite?
When the police searched Vlad's apartment, they found severed human body parts hidden in the home, though these were most likely bought. Jon and Vlad were charged and imprisoned and the cult disbanded in the following tumult.
Years later, when Jon had served his prison sentance, he comitted ritual suicide by blowing his brains out inside a circle of lit candles. At his feet lay a satanic grimoire. The runes of the Chaos Gods having been scribbled all about the room. He told his friends he was going to Transylvania.
I guess the Chaos Gods got their sacrifice after all.
Some years ago I meet this heavy metal guy who had been a fan of Dissection. He told me the event absolutely sucked. Ever since then he has had nothing to listen to.
You do realize you're up next, right?
Oh don't worry -- you've been there ever since you forced us to watch a documentary.
