The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.
I don't have much contact at all with other black metal bands.
Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.
For years I wouldn't listen to black metal from anywhere but Norway.
I never did anything with the early recordings I made, I felt they weren't worthy.
I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.
There isn't much of an agenda lyrically. And I definitely didn't want to write about things I don't know anything about.
We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.
I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.
If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.