Iransk black metal och censur: en fallstudie

Abstract

This essay focuses on black metal and musical censorship in Iran. This is done through a case study with Sina Winter who lived most of his life in Iran, creating black metal music in the obscurity with his one-man band From the Vastland. The essay is based on a musical- ethnological perspective and analyzes the cultural differences of black metal in Norway respectively Iran. The essay determines what music censorship is, how it is conducted and how the practice of it looks like in Iran. The interview with Sina Winter gives a slight insight into a daily life of fear and oppression, but also the courage to keep creating music in a country where it is forbidden and occasionally punished by death.