„Black Metal and Death Metal Music […] are complimentary forms of commodified evil whose respective natures and essences effectively situate them in diametrical opposition to the “good guys always win” motif; and hence to the overly optimistic form of consolation it engenders. In fact, as we have seen, by contrast they suggest to us that the ability to overcome our problems, and cope with the world’s atrocities, lies not in the vain hope that justice will prevail, but rather, in embracing evil; and thereby in actively cultivating what will be termed a desensitizing ethos of utter indifference to the plight and suffering of others.“ Jason Forster: Commodified Evil’s Wayward Children: Black Metal and Death Metal as Purveyors of an Alternative Form of Modern Escapism (PDF; 1,2 MB). University of Canterbury 2006, S. 130f.
“By contrast, for Death Metal, with its lyrical focus on every conceivable variety of murder, rape, sadistic torture, dismemberment and cannibalism, the types of voluntary activities that most characterize the notion of moral evil are those that cause physical suffering. As such, they fall squarely under the rubric of moral evil as it is secularly and contemporarily defined, where the focus and impact of such activities become unequivocally temporal. For, in secular discourse, moral evil is defined as that ‘evil that occurs when an intelligent being knowingly and deliberately inflicts suffering upon another sentient being’.” Jason Forster: Commodified Evil’s Wayward Children: Black Metal and Death Metal as Purveyors of an Alternative Form of Modern Escapism. (PDF; 1,2 MB) University of Canterbury 2006, S. 44f.