#guy with camera was later murdered by the guy he got in to replace necrobutcher

[whetstonefires]

i’m not saying he wasn’t 100% in the right even before you get to the later stabbing incident, but when a guy calls himself Necrobutcher it’s still a little surprising when what drives him to walk is one bandmate photographing another’s gory suicide.

...admittedly, that feels like a more natural reaction to a shocking sight in 2020 than it did in 1997, but methinks Necrobutcher was still a little less committed to the bit.

#hoc est meum #suicide #suicide tw #mayhem #black metal #dead overcommitted to the bit #by which we actually mean that calling himself dead and carving himself up with a knife onstage #would have been clear signs of a problem #except in context they were hard to distinguish from a shtick #self-harm #impressive implosions #guy with camera was later murdered by the guy he got in to replace necrobutcher #such drama #somehow the album they were working on still got produced #and i suppose sold so well because #the death and blood endowed a certain seal of sincerity on the screaming #hm i am now thinking of that one calvin and hobbes