Tom McKennan’s Reviews > Lords of Chaos > Status Update

You can tell this was written by Scandinavians. "This book's about improbably chiseled lunatics burning down churches and occasionally murdering each other while inventing a new and more extreme subgenre of metal. What tone should we strike?" "Oh, definitely dry, quasi-academic and over 400 pages long." Fascinating read though, as much a lens through which to view Scandinavian history as it is a tale of modern excess