. . . . "Occultist, Satanist, Hindu, Nordic and Greco-Roman mythological references abound in black metal.To any student of European history or art, these values are not new; they are traditional to all Romantic forms of art, whether literature or visual art or symphonies, and were upheld by artists as disparate as William Wordsworth, Anton Bruckner, John Keats, Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Lord B" .