Black metal and the extreme right, Part 4

Warlike and insurrectionary, the Norwegian bands who declared that "black metal ist Krieg" sought to rouse their followers from what they saw as the apathy of a Christianised, egalitarian society, recalling them to the natural aristocracy of their pagan national roots. Some manifestations of this ideology were more overtly fascist than others; and some, such as that propounded by Burzum's Varg Vikernes, were so ultra-fascist that even those attracted by the politics of the extreme right wing were apt to be alienated by the concerted loathing of humanity they evinced. But the political attitudes of the progenitors of black metal were generally expressions of a drive to develop an ideology maximally incompatible with the peaceful social democratic self-image of Norwegian society: they were less about allegiance to nationalist causes than they were about generating antagonism.

From Dominic Fox, Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria, p. 50.