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[Ihsahn]
I think it was more important for me to show everyone else around that I was different from them and had very strong points of view. It was to get a reaction back that would prove my identity.

Many of the "Satanic" bands even evince a strong fascination for native folklore and tradition, seeing them as vital allegories which represent primal energies within man.

While a certain amount of what is found in these pages can be ascribed to age-old impulses of teenage rebellion, undoubtedly there was and is something deeper going on, a certain energy twisting and erupting from below the ground - something from the roots.