Under the needle

Dark Matter explores black metal’s notorious, curious and always controversial ties with death and self-destruction Picked out in lurid pools of rapidly congealing crimson, black and scarlet, a semi-naked form slumps dead-eyed and lifeless over a bathtub generously dashed with gore, frozen forever in the final, pitiful throes of death. Slick and glistening against the cold, yellowish pallour of dated porcelain, each and every detail captured by an eye visibly savouring the ab