Even if you haven’t had the pleasure of perusing Tero Ikäheimonen’s excellent history of Finnish black metal, The Devil’s Cradle, it rapidly becomes obvious that this is one of the richest, most multifaceted scenes within the genre. You’ve got acts like Beherit, who went from some of the rawest music imaginable (even played outside of local shopping malls in impromptu daylight gigs) to some of the eeriest electro-ambience ever produced, as evidenced by their latest record, Bardo Exist, and its 1995 predecessor, Electric Doom Synthesis. You’ve got producers like Werwolf, who made his mark with Satanic Warmaster – one of the most successful examples of one-man-metal in history, with his landmark record Fimbulwinter achieving #14 on the Finnish national charts – and went on to embrace the dun...
