I love metal. I love it so much that I have it tattooed on my bottom lip. Granted, I love a lot of things and certainly enough to tattoo on my bottom lip, but I can’t imagine it being as impressive telling someone that I have a tattoo on my bottom lip, then showing them “Lime Popsicles”, or “Nerd Rope”. Last weekend the Swedish Black Metal giants Marduk were in Chicago. Despite their massive success, it was the first time that they’ve been to Chicago. As much as I love metal, I’m wholly confused by the existence of black metal. Considering how incredibly evil the entire genre seems to be, you’d think that it would have come from a place like Moldova, Cleveland or somewhere else depressing, but it actually got its life start in Sweden, easily one of the best off countries in the entire world. I sat down with the guitarist and founder of Marduk to talk about exactly this, their new album Wormwood, and Satan. The Chicago Reader apparently liked it quite a bit, however apparently not quite as much as someone with the user name “baby jesus must die”, who posted a comment directly below a user who may or may not be my uncle saying “go ben!”. Thanks for the kind words “baby jesus must die”. Read it by clicking on anything that looks clickable.

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