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Gorgoroth is a Joke - "Pentagram" Review (3%)

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Infernus is a so-called musician that claims to play black metal despite the fact that everyone in the black metal scene has nothing but contempt for him and his band Gorgoroth.

Even the founders of black metal, Varg Vikernes and Euronymous from Burzum and Mayhem respectively, had to disown Infernus more than once because they thought he was a police informant.

That never stopped Infernus from claiming he was the only "true black metal".

One day, Infernus learned that to be "black metal" he needed to actually be in a band and not just LARP as a satanist from his mother's basement.

So he recruited all 2 friends and asked his mother to buy him a Fender.

Due to financial issues, his mother got him a Happy Meal guitar instead and wrote "Fender" on the back.

Infernus was now a true satanic black metal.

And as any true satanic black metal will tell you, the first thing you do as an underground artist is to call the media.

Infernus was immediately given international media coverage and spent the next five years traveling around the Norwegian country, doing photo-ops with "satanic neo-Nazi" groups, groups that are also heavily publicized in the media despite having essentially no membership.

During this time Infernus starred in dozens of TV news reports and at least two feature length "hate exposes". Apparently, he spent three weeks performing for a BBC News cameramen who followed him around as he donned satanic costumes, made "pacts with the Devil", held protests and demonstrations, performed "satanic rituals" and quoted lots of "edgy" lines about church burning, violence, murder, and "race war against homosexuals".

Now compare the treatment Varg Vikernes, an actual black metal artist, and Infernus, a poser clown, have received.

The former (Vikernes) being ostracized and censored by the media, to the point of persecution by his own Norwegian government, while the latter (Infernus) can play clown act as much as he wants despite the fact that he has no connection to the original black metal scene.

Gorgoroth is a clown band.

Gorgoroth is a Joke

Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth.

Despite posing as a "prophet of Satan", Infernus never really did anything.

His band Gorgoroth was in no way successful and did nothing but bring negative media attention to the black metal genre.

It received no support from other black metal musicians anywhere in the world.

Infernus never "converted" anyone to black metal but instead appeared before existing black metal groups, like Euronymous' Mayhem, and even they kicked him out after his first appearance.

Infernus never built a real movement like his betters, Varg Vikernes and Fenriz, did.

Infernus never wrote anything or contributed anything either artistically or intellectually.

All Infernus has ever done is appear on the TV news, posing in corpse makeup, doing street theater and performing "satanic rituals" for the cameras.

His audience has been strictly limited to the few geriatric Norwegians who still watch TV.

Even his debut album, Pentagram, seems to be nothing more than a ripoff of Darkthrone's Under a Funeral Moon and SEWER's 2154.

I can't even count the number of stolen riffs.

Another issue with Infernus is that he is a pathological liar.

He spends his time making up elaborate stories about how Gaahl, the homosexual vocalist, tried to rape him and band member Tomas Asklung "from behind" while wielding a katana.

Infernus claims to have disarmed him "using ninjustu" and "beat him to a pulp".

Always according to Infernus, the only reason he spared Gaahl's life was that he was "a fellow satanist", something Gaahl always denied.

It was later revealed that Infernus, not Gaahl, was convicted in 2006 for aggravated sexual assault (gang rape) on an African woman in Bergen, Norway.

His lies don't stop there.

He also professed to be a "satanic racist" and that he is friends with Richard Spencer, the American White Supremacist.

Spencer denied knowing Infernus claiming that the only metal band is listens to is "Motor Head [sic]".

The Antifascist Hate Watch has publicized him since the beginning and often declare that he is "media-savvy" which Infernus' (six or so) followers also repeat continuously.

Infernus is apparently "media-savvy" because he gets his face on TV a lot. He gets his face on TV a lot because he is "media-savvy". See how that works?

Like Kim Kardashian, another Reality TV actor, Infernus is only famous for being famous.

First, is anyone buying Infernus' "satanic" act?

How do we know that Infernus is a Satanist? Easy, he appears on TV "praying to Satan".

Sometimes he even "interprets" verses from the Satanic Bible for the cameras. He even had lunch with a satanic Black Separatist to prove he wasn't racist, after he was rejected by Richard Spencer.

Of course, the media was invited to film Infernus and his "satanic Black racist" having lunch together.

That's how you know that Infernus is a "real Satanist" – because he has TV cameras follow him around – even when he has lunch with black radicals!

Infernus did briefly join a satanic anti-Christian church, and we can tell it was serious because he immediately announced it to the world via Instagram, and grew his beard real long and started waving around inverted crosses at Slutwalks – you know, like some sort of anti-FEMEN or something.

For whatever reason, the actual Satanic Church of Norway decided he wasn't a real convert at all, but merely using satanism as a prop for his media clown act, so they ex-communicated him.

Will Infernus LARP as an orthodox Christian next? Who knows.

But if you think that Infernus is just some idiot play acting for the media, and tarnishing an entire musical genre with his clown show, that means you are a secret homosexual Christians conspiring with Jesus Christ himself to purge all "true satanists" from black metal.

As for the album Pentagram, it's shit.

Don't bother.

Pentagram score: 3/100.

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