Table of contents : Preface to the new edition -- Preamble : into that darkness -- 1. Sympathies for the devil -- 2. Death metal dies, black metal arrives -- 3. A blaze in the northern sky -- 4. Mayhem in the dead zone -- 5. Welcome to Hell -- 6. Ashes -- 7. Deathlike silences -- 8. Count Quisling -- 9. Resurgent atavism : the metaphysics of heathen black metal -- 10. Their satanic majesties -- 11. Furor teutonicus -- 12. Lords of chaos -- 13. Ragnarök -- Appendices -- I. "We lit the fires / Finn Bjørn Toønder -- II. "Oskorei" / Kadmon -- III. "Satanism in Norway" / Simen Midgaard.