BLACK METAL Magius Book, Hardback Book

BLACK METAL Magius

Hardback Book

Script/Drawing: Magius (Diego Corbalán Hernández)

Language: Spanish

Format: Hardback. 203 x 276 mm. B/W. Leatherette, cuts painted in black.

Number of pages: 220.

EAN: 9788412968200

ISBN: 978-84-129682-0-0

Publisher: Autsaider Cómics, 2025.

The long work: Black Metal, set in the 1990s Black Metal scene in Norway and inspired by the true story of the band Mayhem, marked by murder, suicide and church burnings. The comic features a children's version of the main characters.

It includes a cut-out of a church to emulate the antics of these young Norwegians.

The text on the back cover reads:

‘Kristian is a Norwegian boy, he hates his name and prefers to be called Count Grishnackh, Lord of Mordor. He lives in a Norway where there are no more scary Vikings, and the boy doesn't like that. He has become friends, very good friends, with Øystein - known as Euronymous - the leader of Mayhem, the highly acclaimed children's Black Metal band, through which he attracts other younger children to the satanic Inner Circle sect.

Soon, they will live through some wild adventures: induction to suicide, desecration of cemeteries, burning of churches... and some other little things that they will never confess to their friendly psychopedagogue. Of course, their mums and dads won't know anything about it... or maybe they will, but they'll pretend not to.

As children, they are not yet used to adult codes of ethics that take into account the other as a person. Don't get us wrong, we don't mean to say that Kristian, Øystein and the rest of their little friends are bad, but rather that they are innocent. And it is perhaps this innocence, this precarious discernment, that becomes the main features of their behaviour: extreme selfishness and ruthless cruelty.

Based on real events, not very edifying, of course’.