
Edited to add: this was also awarded an Editor's Pick!
This first chapter was heavily inspired by black metal music, if you can brave the soundtrack, here are some choice examples:
Sacrifice by Bathory - the only song explicitly mentioned in the story, this band inspired pretty much every black metal band that came after them - this song was released in 1984
Under The Sign Of The Black Mark by Bathory - if you listen to only one black metal album in your life, listen to this one.
Uinuos Syömein Sota by Havukruunu - Finnish metal from this year.
Enki by Melechesh - originally from Jerusalem, this is a very different take on black metal (and the inspiration for one of the characters being from the Middle-East)



