ABSTRACT

In Denmark and Norway, Satanism has become synonymous with Black Metal’s inverse-Christian church arsons and murders. But now, a new generation of Satanists is trying to establish “rationalist” or LaVeyan Satanism (e.g. Petersen 2005) as a legitimate religious alternative. In this chapter we focus on how this involves local adaptations with regard to style and politics. The latter includes a surprising political stance, the former some rather surprising pants.