newyorker:

In this week’s issue, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about the darkest subgenre of heavy-metal music: black metal. Over a period of six years, the photographer Peter Beste documented the secretive, insular community of black-metal musicians and fans. Here’s a selection of his photos: http://nyr.kr/pfVFAY (read Frere-Jones’s piece here: http://nyr.kr/qcv406).