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One of the things that people have misunderstood what I
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meant when I created black metal you know the scene
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that came out of Norway ten years after Venom was
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more like a death metal bunch of guys with white
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faces and you know black eyes and you know they
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should have put their own name to it Norse metal,
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corpse metal, whatever black metal is taking rock and roll
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and bastardising it, it's taking rock and roll's rules and
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just doing whatever is a fucking great idea, you know?
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Whether you're singing songs about, you know, I mean, we
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had songs like Teacher's Pet, you know, or Buried Alive,
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you know, it went from one extreme to the next.
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One minute you're talking about being in school, the next
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minute you're talking about being locked in a coffin. And
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that was the idea behind black metal. It was like
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getting the rules and throwing them out the window. You
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take a band like Deep Purple, all they sing about is,
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oh yeah, lovely baby, got me whiskey, driving down the freeway.
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You know, and it's really like, you know, they're stuck.
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You know, they couldn't all of a sudden start singing
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about fucking aliens on another fucking planet. People would be like,
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what the hell is Ritchie Blackwell been smoking, you know?
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Whereas the whole idea behind black metal was to open
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up all the ideas and at the end of the
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day just say, is it a good song or not?
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Rather than, what are you singing about? You know?