Emailed in from Ancient... about a murder in Finland.
Ancient's "The Cainian Chronicle" has been brought up in the press in a rather nasty context. There's been lots and lots of press about a very brutal murder that took place in Hyvinkää (close to Helsinki) some months ago. Just a few things about the murder, to give a picture what we're talking about...
A 23 yrs old man was tortured and killed by three of his friends - aged 23, 20 and 17.
The youngest one of the pack is a girl. The victim was tortured, mutilated (with scissors) and eventually killed. After he was killed the threesome cut of the victims head and limbs and removed some his internal organs, including the victims heart, totally chopping him up. And on top that - as unbelievable as it sounds - they actually ate some parts of the body. The all three murderers are openly satan worshippers and black metal fans. One of them (the primus motor of the murder) has a criminal record, which includes an attempted church burning among other stuff. Obviously this murder has been on all the frontpages and there's been lots of press about satanism and stuff. Naturally black metal music has been mentioned. Last saturday one of the major Finnish afternoon newspapers had full spread story about a CD that the three murderers had been listening to before and during the killing according to police investigations. This CD as you have propably already figured out is the above mentioned Ancient album. The newspaper story has a big picture of the CD's cover, quotations of the lyrics and some details about the band and it's members. I don't know where they got all the details, because not single reporter has contacted us.
The story also has some background information about black metal's history. So there's the keypoints of the story so far. The journalist had obviously done his homework very well, but neither your or our company was mentioned in the story, allthough you can see the Metal Blade text on the picture of the CD cover. Just thought that you should know what's going on in here, the lovely and friendly country of Finland. If you want I can send you a copy of the story.
Regards, Janne
Originally re-published in (C) 1999 by The Chamber Canada's Darkest Magazine.
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