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Les Légions Noires (also known as The Black Legions in English, or simply abbreviated to LLN) is a group of French underground black metal musicians and their bands, centered mostly around the city of Brest, in Britanny. The bands involved limited their releases to very small numbers, and distributed them among friends and close workers.
[edit] HistoryPossibly the circle was formed in the late 1980s, early 1990s, in response to or inspired by the supposed Norwegian "Black Metal Inner Circle." (There are doubts about the very existence of this "Inner Circle" or "Black Mafia" just as much as about that of the LLN.) According to a 2005 series in Terrorizer magazine on the history of black metal, "A bunch of corpsepainted characters, rumoured to be drawn from such acts as Mütiilation, Torgeist and Vlad Tepes named themselves the 'Black Legions' as a tribute to the so-called 'Black Mafia' Norwegian BM heroes Darkthrone and Burzum, who were supposedly ready to terrorize innocent Christians a couple of years before."[1] The first recordings of LLN members came about in the early 1990s, and their influence was acknowledged in the same issue of Terrorizer: "One should never count out France, primarily as the home of the inscrutably influential Black Legions of ridiculous rawness during the mid-90s."[2] The influence of the Norwegian black metal scene was acknowledged by Wlad Drakksteim of Vlad Tepes, who referred, in an interview with Petrified magazine, to Hellhammer and especially Bathory: "Every True Black Metal Horde should play in old Bathory style."[3] In 1994, the year of the trial of Varg Vikernes (of Norwegian black metal band Burzum), accused of murdering Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) of Mayhem in 1993, Vlad Tepes was less positive about other musicians (of more recent bands) from Norway, and when asked about the "Norwegian Black Metal Mafia," said, "Norwegian mafia did lot of 'bad' things to this world. With Euronymous death MAYHEM is definitely dead and it's better like that as it will help Black Metal to return to darkness. [Euronymous] must be in peace now so I don't complain [lament?] him. And about Varg Vikernes (BURZUM) I don't have any opinion. WE have OUR opinions and he certainly knows them so..."[4] The best-known bands of the LLN are Mütiilation (the one-man band formed by William Roussel, also known as Meyhna'ch), Belketre, Torgeist, and Vlad Tepes. Vlad Tepes have been outspoken in the goals of their black metal: "We are Black Legions of Satan, we are the immortal warriors of Black imperial blood. We are here to pervert christian worms and they shall face the Black holocaust. It's near!"[3] [edit] Discography
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